If last year taught us anything, it was that we can move quickly to organise a fully online hacker conference in little over a month. This year our annual, internal hacker conference ran from the 16th to the 18th of September, was attended by 102 hackers from 9 countries across 2 timezones, and was once again filled with epic hacks and laughs! In this post I’ll tell you more about…
In this post I want to talk a little about the BSides Cape Town 17 RFCat challenge and how I went about trying to build a challenge for it. Unfortunately I was not able to able to attend the con itself, but still had the privilege to contribute in some way! The first question you may have could be: “But why RFCat?”. Truthfully, some people that are way better at…
Last weekend was the BSides Cape Town conference, currently ZA’s only hacker con. It’s a cool little con with big dreams that get a little closer each time. This year was a lot a fun and well put together, congrats to all of the speakers organisers and volunteers. SP gave some talks; Charl spoke about where we’re headed in a talk entitled Love Triangles in CyberSpace; a tale about trust in 5…
We recently ran our Black Hat challenge where the ultimate prize was a seat on one of our training courses at Black Hat this year. This would allow the winner to attend any one of the following: BlackOps – Our intermediate pentesting course Infrastructure Bootcamp – Introduction to pwning over the Internet Mobile Bootcamp – Introduction to mobile hacking Web Application Bootcamp – Introduction to web app hacking The challenge…
At SensePost we get to enjoy some challenging assessments and do pretty epic things. Some days it feels like the only thing that could make it better would be driving tanks while doing it. The best hacks normally make their way into our training courses as practical exercises where students get to replicate (and improve on) these hacks. However, we know that there isn’t always room for all the epicness and…