2009
Happy New Year! (No predictions.. promise..)
It’s the last few hours of 2009 here in South Africa so i wanted to take the opportunity really quickly to wish the 2 readers of this blog all the best for new year.. Most security “pundits” are currently doing their 2010 predictions. (although in truth few of them so far have been particularly surprising or out-there.. “Adobe will be brutalized” ? really? hows that different to 08 or 09)(One…
26th Chaos Communication Congress..
is currently on in Berlin. As usual [it] looks like a blast, and as usual, media [is online] before the speaker shuts down his presentation machine.. SensePosters can grab a local copy of the EN-vids [here] /mh
We are famous (almost!)
Last week had two “cloud-security” related articles hit the inter-webs.. After our Vegas09 talk on “clobbering the cloud” we had a brief chat to Rob Lemos, who called us up again, so we ended up adding the soundbyte to his piece in Technology review along with guys like Moxie Marlinspike and Danny MacPherson [here] We also showed up on Read/Write Web, where we were called “security nerds” and “black hats”…
Criticism, Cheerleading, and Negativity
[Alex Payne] has an excellent post up titled “Criticism, Cheerleading, and Negativity“. It’s a 2 minute read, but its worth it: ” We understand well the idea of being in favor or something, or against something, but we don’t particularly understand how criticism fits into this dichotomy. .. The reason a person is critical of a thing is because he is passionate about that thing. In order to have a…
ZaCon – A con in need of a better tagline…
ZaCon came and went, “and a fun time was had by all!” The first run was a semi-cosy affair held at the University of Johannesburg, with 16 speakers holding the crowd from 08h00 till 18h00. ZaCon had many SensePost faces, but is not expressly an SP initiative.. It’s a community based con aimed at growing the next gen of South African hax0rs.. My brief ~12 minute intro: “Why Zacon” explains…
Defcon-17 – Clobbering the Cloud
Our DC-17 video (of the “Clobbering the Cloud” talk) is now available on the the new look DefCon download site: [here] All of the other DC17 videos can be found [here] (if you are a senseposter, you can grab them with descriptions from [here])
Twitter killed the (infosec) Blogging Star ?
Like it, hate it or just plain struggling to understand it, Twitter has made a huge impact across a wide range of fields. We use it fairly heavily internally for simulated water-cooler chatter and quick link-exchange. (like any piece of sp-geek-over-engineering we also have a tweet-bot to convert tweets to emails, and convert blog notifications to tweets). It’s pretty clear though, that once we started tweeting internally, people started blogging…
Spammers need love too..
-snip- From: Haroon Meer <haroon@sensepost.com> To: Marc Schneider <marcs@mplw.net> Subject: Re: http://www.sensepost.com – Contact needed Hi Dr Schneider. * Marc Schneider [marcs@mplw.net] seemed to say: >I am Dr. Marc Schneider and I work for Multilingual Search Engine >Optimization Inc. in Washington DC ( Tel: 1 202-250-3645) – I would >like to speak with the person in charge of your international >clientele. Who is my contact? Who should I speak to??…
Dvorak, on Windows 7, Microsoft and attention to details..
The other day i tweeted a link from John Dvorak reviewing Windows 7. He basically said that Microsoft was dying, and said the product was “made with the same cheap Microsoft vodka.” Dvoraks not new to this[1], (i recall reading his columns in PC magazine in the early 90’s, so he has been around). He slates Microsoft, not because of the code in windows7, but because (he feels) Microsoft has…
Sensepost’s Developer and Bootcamp Security courses (November)
Hi All SensePost will be running their next Developer and Bootcamp courses for 2009, scheduled for November. Please drop me an email if you know of anyone in your area that would like to attend. – 1) Hacking by Numbers – Developer Edition (16-18 November 2009) – 2) Hacking by Numbers -Extended (Bootcamp) Edition (10-13 November) Information about courses: 1) HBN – Developer Edition ‘Hacking By Numbers – Developer Edition‘…
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