Charl Van Der Walt
SensePost partners with Paterva to offer improved security intelligence
We’ve been big fans of Maltego and the team at Paterva for a very long time now, and we frequently use this powerful tool for all kinds of fun and interesting stuff, like Using Maltego to explore threat & vulnerability data; Snoopy: A distributed tracking and profiling framework, ‘Scraping’ time servers; Using Maltego to Data Mine Twitter; and even an analyse on the Use of Social Media by ISIS. We…
A new owner for a new chapter
We’re pleased to announce our acquisition today by SecureData Europe. SecureData (www.secdata.com) is a complete independent security services provider based in the UK and was also previously part of the SecureData Holdings group before being acquired by management in November 2012. The strategic acquisition complements SecureData’s vision for enabling an end-to-end, proactive approach to security for global customers by assessing risk, detecting threats in real-time, protecting valuable assets and responding to…
Honey, I’m home!! – Hacking Z-Wave & other Black Hat news
You’ve probably never thought of this, but the home automation market in the US was worth approximately $3.2 billion in 2010 and is expected to exceed $5.5 billion in 2016. Under the hood, the Zigbee and Z-wave wireless communication protocols are the most common used RF technology in home automation systems. Zigbee is based on an open specification (IEEE 802.15.4) and has been the subject of several academic and practical…
Black Hat Vegas 2013 – Course Summaries
We have an updated breakdown of our BlackHat courses here With the ‘early registration’ discount period coming to an end on May 31, I wanted to provide an overview of what courses we’re offering and how those courses fit together. Please be sure to take advantage of these discounted prices whilst they’re still available. This summary will help you decide which course is best for you… 1. “Cadet” is our…
Charity Drive – Antarctica Expedition
\ Like many businesses we at SensePost are aware of how fortunate we are and and of the many around us who struggle to make ends meet day to day. We have a heart for our community and regularly supported charities and causes that touch us. In South Africa its not hard to find causes to support, but one that’s particularly close to my heart is the Little Lambs Christian…
SensePost People News
We’re extremely proud to announce today the promotion of a number of key people here at SensePost. Shane Kemp, Daniel Cuthbert and Dominic White will be promoted to Global Sales Manager, Chief Operations Officer and Chief Technology Officer respectivley and will join SensePost’s senior leadership structures, effective 01 October 2012. The three new c-levels, along with a number of other emergent leaders, will be commencing a training and development program…
Black Hat Training Classes Update
Hey All, We’re about locked and loaded down here in ZA – ready to tackle the looooong journey to Vegas for Black Hat. If you’re headed to Black Hat but haven’t yet booked training there’s still time, so I thought I’d push out a brief update on what’s still available from our stable of courses. As many of our courses have sold out we opened second classrooms and as a…
CREST South Africa? Let’s talk…
First, some background on CREST in the form of blatant plagiarism… CREST – The Council for Registered Ethical Security Testers – exists to serve the needs of a global information security marketplace that increasingly requires the services of a regulated and professional security testing capability. They provide globally recognised, up to date certifications for organisations and individuals providing penetration testing services. For organisations, CREST provides a provable validation of security…
ITWeb Security Summit 2012
This year, for the fourth time, myself and some others here at SensePost have worked together with the team from ITWeb in the planning of their annual Security Summit. A commercial conference is always (I suspect) a delicate balance between the different drivers from business, technology and ‘industry’, but this year’s event is definitely our best effort thus far. ITWeb has more than ever acknowledged the centrality of good, objective…
Pentesting in the spotlight – a view
As 44Con 2012 starts to gain momentum (we’ll be there again this time around) I was perusing some of the talks from last year’s event… It was a great event with some great presentations, including (if I may say) our own Ian deVilliers’ *Security Application Proxy Pwnage*. Another presentation that caught my attention was Haroon Meer’s *Penetration Testing considered harmful today*. In this presentation Haroon outlines concerns he has with Penetration…
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