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SensePost is now an ethical hacking team of Orange Cyberdefense
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by Dominic White
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31 July 2020
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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by Admin
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28 July 2017
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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by Charl van der Walt
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04 August 2014
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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by daniel
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23 December 2013
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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by Charl van der Walt
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01 November 2013
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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by daniel
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14 February 2013
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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by Charl van der Walt
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06 November 2012
\ 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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by Charl van der Walt
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04 October 2012
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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by Charl van der Walt
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13 July 2012
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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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...
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 …...
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...
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...
Season’s Greetings
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by Charl van der Walt
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18 December 2010
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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by marco
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06 December 2010
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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by Charl van der Walt
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31 October 2010
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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by Charl van der Walt
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07 June 2010
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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by bradleyj
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17 March 2010
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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by jacqui.maree@orangecyberdefense.com
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10 March 2010
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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by Haroon Meer
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02 March 2010
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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by Charl van der Walt
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15 February 2010
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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by marco
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08 February 2010
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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by Haroon Meer
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16 December 2009
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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by Haroon Meer
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29 October 2009
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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by Haroon Meer
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16 May 2009
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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by Haroon Meer
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08 April 2009
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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by Haroon Meer
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09 March 2009
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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by Haroon Meer
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24 February 2009
(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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by Haroon Meer
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04 February 2009
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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by Haroon Meer
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21 January 2009
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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by Haroon Meer
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29 December 2008
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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by Haroon Meer
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28 October 2008
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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by Charl van der Walt
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28 April 2008
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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by Haroon Meer
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01 April 2008
Whoa! time flies when you having fun…
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2 Winning quotes..
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by Haroon Meer
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29 March 2008
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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by Haroon Meer
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09 March 2008
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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by Haroon Meer
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04 March 2008
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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by Charl van der Walt
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28 January 2008
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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by Charl van der Walt
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23 January 2008
This quote reminded of something H always says: “When opportunity comes… its too late to prepare” – John Wooden –...
Eerie coincidences..
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by Haroon Meer
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15 January 2008
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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by nick
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01 December 2007
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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by nick
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01 November 2007
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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by Haroon Meer
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25 October 2007
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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by nick
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29 September 2007
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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by Charl van der Walt
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27 September 2007
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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by Haroon Meer
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27 August 2007
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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by Charl van der Walt
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15 August 2007
SensePost is an exciting & dynamic young company with strong values & a world vision. We specialize in high-end technical...