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Sensepost’s HBN Extended Edition course 11-15th May
We have scheduled our next training course, Hacking By Numbers – Extended Edition (Bootcamp) in May 11-15th .
The course runs for a full 5 days.
Overview The HBN ‘Extended Edition’ is simply an intensive extended version of the regular Bootcamp course. Whilst the content and structure are essentially the same as Bootcamp, the Extended Edition offer students a deeper understanding of the concepts being presented and affords them more time to practice the techniques being taught. Extended Edition is currently offered in Switzerland and South Africa only, or can be arranged on request.
Jack C. Louis: Jan 5, 1977 – March 14, 2009
Truly tragic. We are all poorer for it.. It really was an honor and a privilege to have known him..
Cebit Expo 2009
SensePost have once again been invited to join the South African Department of Trade and Industry at Cebit, as one of 15 SA companies, to exhibit on their pavilion. Visitors to this show range in the region of 500,000 and approximately 5700 exhibitors fill the 27 Halls. Cebit is the biggest information and technology show in Europe and attracts exhibitors and visitors from all over the world. Our stand number is E48 in Hall 5.
Joe Grand (Kingpin) gets famouser!
This is probably really old news (to some), but was in the company of sattelite TV this weekend and saw that Joe Grand now has a TV Slot all of his own. “Prototype This” looks like it will be awesome..
I spent the rest of the day trying hard to catch the adverts at just the right time to get a pic of Joe, while excitedly saying “i cant believe joe is on TV” to deels to try to convince her that it was a better alternative than going out..
ITWeb Security Summit 2009 – CFP Deadline
I just wanted to remind everyone that the CFP for the 2009 ITWeb Security Summit closes on 26 Jan. We’re hoping to see much more in the way of submissions from local infosec people (especially from corporates) but there’s also still room for international submissions. So far I know of 11 ‘international’ submissions. ITWeb is really good to its international speakers so non- South Africans shouldn’t be put off by the long distances. The conference is at an excellent location, South Africa is beautiful at that time of year, you’ll stay in a swanky hotel (this is the one they used last), the food and beer are cheap and ITWeb will take good care of you. You can check out the conference home page and CFP here.
Ted Speaker List up and Free hackin9
(aka 2 completely unrelated topics)
You can grab a free copy of the Hackin9 magazine [here] And you can view the speakers list for Ted09 [here]… /mh
Penetration Testing in 2009 – Opposing Viewpoints
The last few weeks have brought some fairly interesting predictions for 2009 to bear in CSO Magazine columns. Two recent articles caught my eye from a penetration testing perspective.
In the first, Brian Chess, CTO of Fortify (they make source code review and software security tools, and he has written a great book on static analysis) predicted that penetration testing as we know it will die in 2009.
The premise of his argument is that penetration testing will die and be reborn in a different form, aiming more at preventing bugs from occurring, rather than identifying them (rolling things into QA / SDLC etc). Granted, it’s a fairly valid point *in some respects*, albeit a biased one if you consider what he does for a living.
South Africa’s own IT Security “pubcast”
Our good friend Anthony Olivier has launched his “IT Security Pubcast“. So far 2 episodes are online, with episode #2 including our very own, ever quotable Charl van der Walt.
Check it out..
ITWeb Security Summit 2009 – CFP Now Open
A couple of months back SensePost were asked by a prominent South African media company to assist in the selection of content and speakers for an upcoming information security conference called ‘the ITWeb Security Summit‘.
The show runs 26-28 May 2009. The speaker lineup is mostly local (including yours truly) but past speakers have been pretty high-profile – including Dave Litchfield, Johnny Long, Kevin Mitnick, Johnny Cache, Howard Schulz and others.
You know you are getting old..
When you blog a link to poetry:
[The man watching] is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, that i picked up from a talk by Tim Oreilly during his [recent talk] where he chided the audience for focusing on trivial banalities while leaving bigger problems un challenged. A subsequent speaker picked up the theme, and likened it to abandoning NASA to work on DisneyLand.
I think the sentiment is grand, and the poem is inspiring.. and in particular the following lines, are probably going to keep me up nights for a while: