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Orange Cyberdefense at Hacker Summer Camp
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by Szymon Ziolkowski
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17 July 2023
It’s that time of year again where we head out to the desert, more specifically Las Vegas, for what is...
blackhat_defcon_virtual_vegas_2021.zip
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by Leon Jacobs
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31 July 2021
Phew! This year’s hacker summer camp is packed with presentations from several hackers across the globe at Orange Cyberdefense. I...
Routopsy – Hacking Routing with Routers
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by Tyron Kemp
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03 August 2020
This is a summary of our BlackHat USA 2020 talk. Introduction On some of our engagements, Szymon and I found...
SensePost at BlackHat & Defcon 2017
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by Dominic White
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26 June 2017
July is our favourite time of year, when thousands descend into Las Vegas for Blackhat/Defcon, or more commonly referred to...
Pentesting Enterprise Infrastructure – Journeyman Level
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by keiran
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14 June 2017
Sophisticated attacks aim to hide from endpoint solutions Advanced hacking. Expert approaches We are inundated by advanced this, expert that,...
Womens Training Scholarship
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by daniel
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25 May 2017
SensePost and BlackHat are proud to announce a new scholarship initiative for a woman in the information security field. The...
What to look for in a training provider
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by daniel
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05 September 2016
In the last few years, the infosec training scene has exploded. Arguably, the largest training provider is Blackhat, and in...
SensePost at Blackhat & Defcon 2016
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by Dominic White
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21 June 2016
The annual Hacker Summer Camp is nearly upon us, everyone at SensePost is getting ready. This is a brief overview...
PwnBank en route to Vegas
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by chris
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20 June 2016
Everyone has a mobile phone (ok some have two) and the wealth of information people put into them is staggering....
Where SensePost meets the real world
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by daniel
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09 May 2016
SensePost Training at Blackhat USA What is SensePost infrastructure training about and what does it give you as a novice pentester?...
Into The Cloud
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by etienne
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25 November 2015
SensePost Training in the Cloud Picture this. Every year, a group of Plakkers (our nickname for those who work at...
Mobile Application Bootcamp – Journeyman Level – Black Hat Vegas 2015
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by Paul
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12 June 2015
Mobile Course, O RLY? The mobile app market, and app usage, grew 76% in 2014 [1]. From shopping, utilities, productivity...
Break the Web at BlackHat Singapore
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by sara
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09 March 2015
Web application security training in 2015? It’s a valid question we get asked sometimes. With the amount of books available...
SensePost Training
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by daniel
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04 March 2015
Over those years, we’ve trained thousands of students in the art of offensive and defensive security through our Hacking by...
SensePost Challenge – Winners and Walkthrough
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by etienne
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27 June 2014
We recently ran our Black Hat challenge where the ultimate prize was a seat on one of our training courses...
Hacking Challenge: Drive a tank through it
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by etienne
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19 June 2014
At SensePost we get to enjoy some challenging assessments and do pretty epic things. Some days it feels like the...
Mobile Hacking on the West Coast
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by etienne
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22 November 2013
December sees SensePost presenting Hacking by Numbers: Mobile at BlackHat West Coast Trainings. This course was first presented at BlackHat...
BlackHat Conference: Z-Wave Security
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by behrang
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19 August 2013
We are publishing the research paper and tool for our BlackHat 2013 USA talk on the Z-Wave proprietary wireless protocol...
Rogue Access Points, a how-to
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by Dominic White
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12 July 2013
In preparation for our wireless training course at BlackHat Vegas in a few weeks, I spent some time updating the...
BlackHat Challenge – 2013
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by Ian de Villiers
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03 June 2013
One of the things we try and get across in our training – is that pen-testing requires out of the...
Honey, I’m home!! – Hacking Z-Wave & other Black Hat news
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by Charl van der Walt
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01 June 2013
You’ve probably never thought of this, but the home automation market in the US was worth approximately $3.2 billion in...
Black Hat Vegas 2013 – Course Summaries
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by Charl van der Walt
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26 May 2013
We have an updated breakdown of our BlackHat courses here With the ‘early registration’ discount period coming to an end...
BlackOps Hacking Training – Las Vegas
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by glenn
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23 May 2013
BlackOps you say? At SensePost we have quite a range of courses in our Hacking by Numbers series. We feel...
Stay low, move fast, shoot first, die last, one shot, one kill, no luck, pure skill …
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by george
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23 May 2013
We’re excited to be presenting our Hacking By Numbers Combat course again at Black Hat USA this year. SensePost’s resident...
Wifi Hacking & WPA/2 PSK traffic decryption
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by Dominic White
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09 May 2013
When doing wireless assessments, I end up generating a ton of different scripts for various things that I thought it...
Black Hat Europe – Bootcamp Training
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by glenn
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04 March 2013
SensePost will be at Black Hat Europe 2013 to deliver the Bootcamp module of the Hacking by Numbers series. This...
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...
Solution for the BlackHat Challenge
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by behrang
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22 June 2012
We had published a network protocol analysis challenge for free entry to our BlackHat 2012 Vegas training courses and received...
BlackHat Challenge
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by behrang
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14 June 2012
This year marks a special anniversary for us at SensePost in that we’ve been training at BlackHat for over a...
BlackHat 2011 Presentation
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by marco
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07 August 2011
On this past Thursday we spoke at BlackHat USA on Python Pickle. In the presentation, we covered approaches for implementing...
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...
Hacking By Numbers: W^3 Edition
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by Ian de Villiers
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29 May 2011
Well, we’re ramping up with the new Hacking By Numbers W^3 edition course we will be presenting at BlackHat Vegas...
Hacking by Numbers: BlackOps Edition
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by glenn
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27 May 2011
The brand new BlackOps HBN course makes its debut in Vegas this year. The course finds its place as a...
Hacking by Numbers: Bootcamp Edition
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by saurabh
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17 May 2011
Salut à tous, It’s that time of the year again and like every year, we’ll once again be running our...
Cadet Training
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by willem
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06 May 2011
You’ve seen the movies. You’ve seen the cooler than life characters hacking systems using obscure keyboards and operating systems that...
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...
Playing with Python Pickle #3
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by marco
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15 November 2010
[This is the third in a series of posts on Pickle. Link to part one and two.] Thanks for stopping...
Playing with Python Pickle #2
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by marco
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09 November 2010
[This is the second in a series of posts on Pickle. Link to part one.] In the previous post I...
Playing with Python Pickle #1
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by marco
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09 November 2010
In our recent memcached investigations (a blog post is still in the wings) we came across numerous caches storing serialized...
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 …...
Sensepost Training in November
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by Shane Kemp
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14 October 2010
Our next scheduled training sessions have been planned for November. If you’re interested in attending, the dates and locations are:...
Memcached talk update
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by marco
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07 August 2010
Wow. At some point our talk hit HackerNews and then SlashDot after swirling around the Twitters for a few days....
BlackHat Write-up: go-derper and mining memcaches
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by marco
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04 August 2010
[Update: Disclosure and other points discussed in a little more detail here.] Why memcached? At BlackHat USA last year we...
Go-derper: mining your memcacheds
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by marco
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30 July 2010
Today at BlackHat USA 2010 we released a tool for manipulating memcached instances; we still need to write it up...
SensePost’s Training @ Black Hat Vegas ’10 (win something)
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by Dominic White
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07 June 2010
After hearing our talk was accepted at BlackHat, we’re happy to announce that our training will be back for it’s...
SensePost at BlackHat USA 2010
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by marco
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31 May 2010
A brief update from South Africa on some recent talks as well as the upcoming BH USA: our talk proposal...