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Deck of Cards CTF
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by Jason Spencer
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19 February 2024
I created a small crypto style CTF for Black Hat last year (we’re training again this year, check our courses...
Black Hat Card Deck CTF
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by Jason Spencer
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31 October 2023
In 2023 we, the training team within Orange Cyberdefense and specifically Ulrich Swart, Matthew Hughes and myself, attempted to do...
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...
Come do Wi-Fi!
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by Michael Kruger
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19 July 2021
Wi-Fi is everywhere and having a better understanding of it can fair you well! Over the years we have made...
Exploring The Fundamentals
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by Jason Spencer
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18 July 2021
We are excited to be presenting our Hands-on-Hacking Fundamentals (HHF) course at this year’s BlackHat USA 2021 conference. In our...
Our Enterprise Infrastructure Hacking Course
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by Dane Goodwin
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18 July 2021
Here at Orange Cyberdefense, clients often ask us to test and help secure their infrastructure. We do this a lot....
Making the Perfect Red Team Dropbox (Part 2)
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by Rogan Dawes
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09 July 2020
In part 1 of this series, we set up the NanoPi R1S as a USB attack tool, covering OS installation,...
Making the Perfect Red Team Dropbox (Part 1)
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by Rogan Dawes
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18 May 2020
As part of our preparations for our upcoming RingZer0 “Q Division” Training, I have been working on making a software...
Hack-From-Home Challenge Walk Through
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by Jason Spencer
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24 April 2020
On the 27th of April 2020 SensePost created a CTF challenge (https://challenge.sensepost.com) for the public. The names of those who...
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,...
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...
Maltego Webinar Series: Episode 01, Introduction
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by glenn
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20 April 2015
Hello Internet, We’re going to be hosting monthly Maltego webinar sessions, and our first one is this Friday (24th April)!...
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...
BootCamp Reloaded Infrastructure
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by george
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13 May 2014
Why Infrastructure Hacking Isn’t Dead If you work in IT Security you may have heard people utter the phrase,...
Combat Reloaded
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by daniel
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02 April 2014
The British Special Air Service (SAS) have a motto that’s rather fitting for their line of work – Who Dares...
Hacking by Numbers – The mobile edition
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by etienne
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19 August 2013
West Coast in the house, well actually more like an African visiting Seattle for Blackhat’s West Coast Trainings. We’ve had...
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...
Your first mobile assessment
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by etienne
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20 May 2013
Monday morning, raring for a week of pwnage and you see you’ve just been handed a new assessment, awesome. The...
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...
Solution for the 44Con Challenge
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by junaid
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03 September 2012
Last week, we published our 44Con “SillySIP” Challenge for free entry to our BlackOps training course at the 44Con conference...
44Con Challenge
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by junaid
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24 August 2012
In a similar fashion to the BlackHat challenge held earlier this year, we’re giving away a free ticket to our...
BlackOps – Post Exploitation Fun and Games
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by daniel
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01 August 2012
Brilliant, the client has decided to implement their own CMS and you’ve found a variable that’s vulnerable to SQL injection....
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...
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...
Hacking By Numbers – March 2012
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by Shane Kemp
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22 February 2012
Our next locally scheduled training sessions have been planned for March. If you’re interested in attending, the dates and locations...
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...
Black Hat Abu Dhabi && Cadet Online Edition
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by Charl van der Walt
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06 October 2011
Black Hat will host its second event in the Middle East in Abu Dhabi with a full contingent of selected...
SensePost @ 44Con – Join us!
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by Charl van der Walt
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19 August 2011
Until recently, there was a distinct lack of decent, high-quality technical security conferences held in the United Kingdom. Home to the...
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...
BlackHat Barcelona Training
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by glenn
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22 February 2011
Hola amigos, We will be running our elite “Combat Training” at the BlackHat Briefings in Barcelona this March (talk lineup) and...
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...
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:...
Hacking By Numbers – South Africa – September ’10
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by Charl van der Walt
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26 August 2010
From the team that won the world’s first Soccer Hack Cup, we bring you the latest and the greatest in...
SensePost Corporate Threat(Risk) Modeler
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by Dominic White
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07 June 2010
Since joining SensePost I’ve had a chance to get down and dirty with the threat modeling tool. The original principle...
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...
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...
SensePost trains in Spain.
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by bradleyj
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04 March 2010
Hey everyone. We will once again be presenting our BootCamp training course at the BlackHat Europe Conference. It seems this...
Sensepost’s Developer and Bootcamp Security courses (November)
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by Shane Kemp
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19 October 2009
Hi All SensePost will be running their next Developer and Bootcamp courses for 2009, scheduled for November. Please drop me...
Sensepost’s HBN Extended Edition course 11-15th May
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by Shane Kemp
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07 April 2009
We have scheduled our next training course, Hacking By Numbers – Extended Edition (Bootcamp) in May 11-15th . The course...
HBN Developer Edition Training
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by Shane Kemp
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30 March 2009
Hi All We have scheduled our first Developer course for April in Pretoria, should you know of anyone in your...
Hack Like You Mean It – we’re taking PCI to Vegas
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by Charl van der Walt
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20 March 2009
We’ve been busying ourselves with the PCI DSS in one way or another for more than a year now here...
FW: HBN Extended Edition 9-13 March
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by Shane Kemp
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17 February 2009
Yes, it is time to offer some technical input by way of our HBN Extended Edition training. There will be...
SensePost Training @ Black Hat DC
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by Charl van der Walt
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07 January 2009
So… Black Hat DC is rushing at us like a speeding big… speeding thing. This is just a friendly a...
Hacking By Numbers Online – your thoughts?
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by Charl van der Walt
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06 January 2009
We often get asked by students of our Hacking By Numbers courses if the course environments or at least the...
HBN Bootcamp – Christmas Edition
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by Charl van der Walt
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11 November 2008
As a Christmas special we have scheduled an additional training course, Hacking By Numbers – Extended Edition (Bootcamp) in Pretoria,...
HBN Extended Edition 6-10 October
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by Charl van der Walt
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10 September 2008
We have scheduled our first training course for our new year, Hacking By Numbers – “Extended” Edition – for October...
Another time sink-hole..
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by Haroon Meer
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29 December 2007
A while back some of us discovered and subsequently lost days to “The Python Challenge“. Well.. prepare to write off...
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 Training at Black Hat Las Vegas
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by Charl van der Walt
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03 July 2007
The Black Hat Briefings is arguably the most significant technical security conference in the world. It takes every year in...