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SensePost is now an ethical hacking team of Orange Cyberdefense

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From the 1st of August 2020, SensePost will be changing, from the name of our company, to the name of...

A new colour scheme

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SensePost has been hacking for 17 years and the time has come for a branding change. The change in logo...

SensePost partners with Paterva to offer improved security intelligence

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We’ve been big fans of Maltego and the team at Paterva for a very long time now,  and we frequently...

Goodbye to 2013, hello to 2014

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With 2013 coming to a close, I thought it pertinent to look back at the year we’ve had and also...

A new owner for a new chapter

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We’re pleased to announce our acquisition today by SecureData Europe. SecureData (www.secdata.com) is a complete independent security services provider based...

Adolescence: 13 years of SensePost

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Today was our 13th birthday. In Internet years, that’s a long time. Depending on your outlook, we’re either almost a pensioner...

Charity Drive – Antarctica Expedition

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\ Like many businesses we at SensePost are aware of how fortunate we are and and of the many around...

SensePost People News

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We’re extremely proud to announce today the promotion of a number of  key people here at SensePost. Shane Kemp, Daniel...

Black Hat Training Classes Update

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Hey All, We’re about locked and loaded down here in ZA – ready to tackle the looooong journey to Vegas...

Press Release – London Hacking & Security Courses

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School’s never out for the Pro! We’re proud to announce that we are now offering our highly successful penetration testing...

Press Release – Jane Frankland joins SensePost

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The SensePost marketing division, a highly skilled team of ruthless spin-doctors, is proud to announce that they have written …...

SensePost Black Hat Course Summary & chosing the right courses

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As we draw nearer to Black Hat Vegas we get a lot of requests from people who need help choosing...

Training – lots of stuff(c)

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Hey. Charl here. Lots of stuff is happening on the training front right now (ed: right now!), and I wanted...

Season’s Greetings

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To all our customers, staff (past and present), business partners, friends and associates I’d like to wish a joyous and...

Internal spotlight

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As the year winds down, it’s time to mention a few internal victories that are fun to share: Daniel Cuthbert...

Black Hat Abu Dhabi – Full … NOT!

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The bad news is that our course at Black Hat Abu Dhabi is completely full. The good news is …...

New SensePost Website – check it out

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Sigh. We’ve never been much good at marketing or advertising, and I guess we still aren’t. But we have tried...

HBN BootCamp Updated!

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Hey Everyone, As promised last week, we have made changes to the content of our HBN BootCamp course. We have...

CANSA Shavathon 2010

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This past Thursday we received notice that Boogterman & Partners would be a host company for the CANSA Shavathon 2010...

So long.. and thanks for everything..

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Considering how freely i’ve ranted on our blog over the past few years i found it incredibly hard to to...

SensePost Ten Years Old

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After ten fascinating years, during which many people have contributed in so many ways to the place that is SensePost,...

Removing registration requirements

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Over the years we’ve offered almost all our tools, papers, presentations and other materials for free, albeit with a “registration...

We are famous (almost!)

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Last week had two “cloud-security” related articles hit the inter-webs.. After our Vegas09 talk on “clobbering the cloud” we had...

Dvorak, on Windows 7, Microsoft and attention to details..

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The other day i tweeted a link from John Dvorak reviewing Windows 7. He basically said that Microsoft was dying,...

How Good Companies Fail..

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In early 2002 i recall reading and falling in love with Jim Collins book: “From good to Great“. I recall...

Comments have been broked :(

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Comments on the blog have been suprisingly quiet and we should have realised this when more and more people started...

Defcon 16 Videos Available..

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Ok.. So The Dark Tangent announced this [a few days ago], but i felt it deserved mention because i was...

Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques of 2008

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(aka – Whoot! we are almost famous!!) Jeremiah Grossman’s panel of judges (Rich Mogull, Chris Hoff,  HD Moore and RFP)...

On Hiring Staff – The T-Shirt Method..

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Anyone who has honestly reflected on what they know about hiring, will tell you that no matter how locked-down you...

When missing a good hire works out well..

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A few years ago, Mohamed Nanabhay was considering joining SensePost and i was trying hard to convince him it was...

We going to sue and make Squillions…..

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or maybe not… The twitters informed me that Singe uncovered a case of brand plagiarism!!!1! -snip- -snip- So lets review.....

You know you are getting old..

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When you blog a link to poetry: [The man watching] is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, that i picked...

Should I stay or should I Gobi? Your support needed!

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Hello All, Some of you might remember that I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro two years ago. What you might not know...

Its my SensePostaversary!

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Whoa! time flies when you having fun… (click for orig.)

2 Winning quotes..

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from the SourceBoston videos i blogged about: Dr Geer never dissapoints, and kicked it off with the 4 rules on...

Everything i needed to know about managing hackers, i learnt from my DVD collection..

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Ok.. so the title clearly isnt true.. but it made more sense than saying something about the altered geographic location...

The Peltier Effect – Year in Review..

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Peltier and Associates have released their massive “Peltier Effect – Year in Review 2007“. The collection comes in at a...

HBN Bootcamp @ Black Hat

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Black Hat DC this year is supposed to be “a different kind of Black Hat”. There are four tracks over...

On working when everyone else is asleep…

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This quote reminded of something H always says: “When opportunity comes… its too late to prepare” – John Wooden –...

Eerie coincidences..

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a) its my birthday in a few days b) Apple just announced the new macbookair.. Coincidence??? i think not!!!

The fine line between failure and success

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So…because I don’t have a report to write this weekend I’ve had some time to ponder and reflect on stuff...

Rational vs Emotional Commitment

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I’ve spoken before on how I like some of Simon T Bailey’s stuff and his general leetnesses…he has some gems…...

PauldotCom Interview, Part I

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OK.. so part one of our pauldotcom interview has hit the interwebs.. it was fun and involved a power failure...

The myth of the expert

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Something we preach very strongly in our training is the importance of an understanding of the underlying technology / application...

Feedback on our courses in Switzerland

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We just finished presenting an HBN Bootcamp and an HBN Combat Edition in Lausanne, Switzerland. A lot of people don’t...

SensePost, now a company of SecureData…

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For those of you haven’t yet seen, the J.S.E listed SecureData bought 100% of the shares in SensePost late last...

We’re hiring

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SensePost is an exciting & dynamic young company with strong values & a world vision. We specialize in high-end technical...