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Press Release – London Hacking & Security Courses
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by Charl van der Walt
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13 December 2011
School’s never out for the Pro! We’re proud to announce that we are now offering our highly successful penetration testing...
Competition winner announced
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by marco
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06 December 2011
On Saturday Dec 3, at BSides Cape Town we announced the winner of a prize for local information security research....
R5000 ZA research prize to be presented at B-Sides Cape Town, nominations sought
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by marco
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21 November 2011
SensePost is proud to announce a competition to identify the best information security research published by a resident of South...
Mobile Security Summit 2011
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by saurabh
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01 November 2011
This week, Charl van der Walt and I (Saurabh) spoke at Mobile Security Summit organized by IIR (http://www.iir.co.za/detail.php?e=2389). Charl was...
Squinting at Security Drivers and Perspective-based Biases
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by Dominic White
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28 October 2011
While doing some thinking on threat modelling I started examining what the usual drivers of security spend and controls are...
Metricon 2011 Summary
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by Dominic White
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28 October 2011
[I originally wrote this blog entry on the plane returning from BlackHat, Defcon & Metricon, but forgot to publish it....
Decrypting iPhone Apps
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by saurabh
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24 October 2011
This blog post steps through how to convert encrypted iPhone application bundles into plaintext application bundles that are easier to...
Be Inspired
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by daniel
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17 October 2011
Talented Innovative Quality driven Forward thinking Trusted advisors And …simply good fun! These are all phrases associated with SensePost. Do you...
Press Release – Jane Frankland joins SensePost
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by Charl van der Walt
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08 October 2011
The SensePost marketing division, a highly skilled team of ruthless spin-doctors, is proud to announce that they have written …...
Black Hat Abu Dhabi && Cadet Online Edition
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by Charl van der Walt
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06 October 2011
Black Hat will host its second event in the Middle East in Abu Dhabi with a full contingent of selected...
Runtime analysis of Windows Phone 7 Applications
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by behrang
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14 September 2011
Runtime analysis is an integral part of most application security assessment processes. Many powerful tools have been developed to perform...
Hacking Online Auctions – UnCon && ITWeb talk
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by glenn
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13 September 2011
I gave an updated version of my ‘Hacking Online Auctions’ talk at UnCon in London last week. The talk gave...
Systems Applications Proxy Pwnage
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by Ian de Villiers
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02 September 2011
[2011/9/6 Edited to add Slideshare embed] I am currently in London at the first ever 44con conference. It’s been a...
SensePost @ 44Con – Join us!
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by Charl van der Walt
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19 August 2011
Until recently, there was a distinct lack of decent, high-quality technical security conferences held in the United Kingdom. Home to the...
Metricon6 Presentation
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by marco
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10 August 2011
Dominic is currently in the air somewhere over the Atlantic, returning from a long trip that included BlackHat, DefCon and...
BlackHat 2011 Presentation
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by marco
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07 August 2011
On this past Thursday we spoke at BlackHat USA on Python Pickle. In the presentation, we covered approaches for implementing...
Security Policies – Go Away
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by Dominic White
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14 July 2011
Security policies are necessary, but their focus is to the detriment of more important security tasks. If auditors had looked...
SensePost Black Hat Course Summary & chosing the right courses
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by Charl van der Walt
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08 July 2011
As we draw nearer to Black Hat Vegas we get a lot of requests from people who need help choosing...
House of Cards
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by daniel
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07 July 2011
In light of recent mass hacks (HBGary, Sony, Nintendo, etc) one would have thought that collectively, companies would take notice...
Threat Modeling vs Information Classification
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by Dominic White
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08 June 2011
Over the last few years there has been a popular meme talking about information centric security as a new paradigm...
From the International Conference on Cyber Conflict
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by Charl van der Walt
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07 June 2011
The text that follows is a short statement I prepared for the press ahead of my presentation at the ‘The...
Hacking By Numbers: W^3 Edition
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by Ian de Villiers
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29 May 2011
Well, we’re ramping up with the new Hacking By Numbers W^3 edition course we will be presenting at BlackHat Vegas...
Hacking by Numbers: BlackOps Edition
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by glenn
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27 May 2011
The brand new BlackOps HBN course makes its debut in Vegas this year. The course finds its place as a...
Incorporating cost into appsec metrics for organisations
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by marco
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22 May 2011
A longish post, but this wasn’t going to fit into 140 characters. This is an argument pertaining to security metrics,...
Hacking by Numbers: Bootcamp Edition
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by saurabh
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17 May 2011
Salut à tous, It’s that time of the year again and like every year, we’ll once again be running our...
Rhodes MSc Information Security Weekend
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by daniel
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16 May 2011
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to...
Cadet Training
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by willem
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06 May 2011
You’ve seen the movies. You’ve seen the cooler than life characters hacking systems using obscure keyboards and operating systems that...
ITWeb Security Summit
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by Dominic White
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17 March 2011
The ITWeb Security Summit is creeping up on us again and will be happening on the 10-11th of May. This...
To understand the battlefield, you need a broad view
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by evert
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01 March 2011
It is always a little bemusing to hear that we only provide pentests. Since 2001, SensePost has offered a very...
BlackHat Barcelona Training
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by glenn
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22 February 2011
Hola amigos, We will be running our elite “Combat Training” at the BlackHat Briefings in Barcelona this March (talk lineup) and...
The Yeti is here
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by evert
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15 February 2011
After several months of dedicated … uh dedication, our new network footprinting tool is being made available to the masses....
Training – lots of stuff(c)
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by Charl van der Walt
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09 February 2011
Hey. Charl here. Lots of stuff is happening on the training front right now (ed: right now!), and I wanted...
Happy New Year gift: source code!
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by marco
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03 January 2011
If you use the Gregorian Calendar, then Happy New Year! Down here in South Africa, we’ve also ushered in a...