HBN Developer Edition Training - November 2009

We have scheduled our Developer course for November in Pretoria, should you know of anyone in your area that would like to attend.

- Hacking by Numbers - Developer Edition (16-17th November)

"Hacking By Numbers - Developer Edition" is a course aimed at arming web application developers with knowledge of web application attack techniques currently being used in the "wild" and how to combat them. Derived from our internationally acclaimed "Hacking By Numbers" security training, this course focuses heavily on two questions: "What am I up against?" and "How can I protect my applications from attack?"

During the course sample applications will be dissected to discover security related bugs hidden within the code. The class will then consider prevention, detection & cure.

A registration form can be downloaded from here

Otherwise please mail training@sensepost.com for more information.

HBN Extended (Bootcamp) Edition course 14th-17th September

We have scheduled our next training course, Hacking By Numbers Extended Edition (Bootcamp) in September 14-17th . The course runs for a full 4 days.

The HBN "Extended Edition" is simply an intensive extended version of the regular Bootcamp course. Whilst the content and structure are essentially the same as Bootcamp, the Extended Edition offer students a deeper understanding of the concepts being presented and affords them more time to practice the techniques being taught. Extended Edition is currently offered in Switzerland and South Africa only, or can be arranged on request.

Who should attend:

Information security officers, system and network administrators, security consultants will all benefit from the valuable insights provided by this class. Remember that this course is practical and of an extremely technical nature, so a basic understanding of networking, security, Unix and TCP is a course prerequisite.

When: 14TH - 17TH September 2009

Where: Lakeview 2 Office Building, Ground Floor, 138 Middle Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Brooklyn

Times: 8:30am - 5:00pm

A registration form can be downloaded from here Otherwise please mail training@sensepost.com for more information.

HBN Extended Edition course 11-15th May

We have scheduled our next training course, Hacking By Numbers - Extended Edition (Bootcamp) in May 11-15th

The HBN "Extended Edition" is simply an intensive extended version of the regular Bootcamp course. Whilst the content and structure are essentially the same as Bootcamp, the Extended Edition offer students a deeper understanding of the concepts being presented and affords them more time to practice the techniques being taught. Extended Edition is currently offered in Switzerland and South Africa only, or can be arranged on request.

Who should attend:

Information security officers, system and network administrators, security consultants will all benefit from the valuable insights provided by this class. Remember that this course is practical and of an extremely technical nature, so a basic understanding of networking, security, Unix and TCP is a course prerequisite.

When: 11 - 15 May 2009

Where: Lakeview 2 Office Building, Ground Floor, 138 Middle Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Brooklyn

To Book: shane@sensepost.com or +27 12 4600880

HBN Developer Edition Training - April 2009

We have scheduled our first Developer course for April in Pretoria, should you know of anyone in your area that would like to attend.

- Hacking by Numbers - Developer Edition (28-30th April)

"Hacking By Numbers - Developer Edition" is a course aimed at arming web application developers with knowledge of web application attack techniques currently being used in the "wild" and how to combat them. Derived from our internationally acclaimed "Hacking By Numbers" security training, this course focuses heavily on two questions: "What am I up against?" and "How can I protect my applications from attack?"

During the course sample applications will be dissected to discover security related bugs hidden within the code. The class will then consider prevention, detection & cure.

A registration form can be downloaded from here

Otherwise please mail training@sensepost.com for more information.

HBN Extended Edition 9-13 March

Yes, it is time to offer some technical input by way of our HBN Extended Edition training. There will be no Christmas hat this time round but lots of valued input. We have scheduled our first training course for our new year, Hacking By Numbers - "Extended" Edition - for March 9-13th . The course runs for a full 5 days in Pretoria, South Africa.

The HBN "Extended Edition" is simply an intensive extended version of the regular Bootcamp course. Whilst the content and structure are essentially the same as Bootcamp, the Extended Edition offers students a deeper understanding of the concepts being presented and affords them more time to practice the techniques being taught. Extended Edition is currently only offered in Switzerland and South Africa only, or can be arranged on request.

Who should attend? Information security officers, system and network administrators, security consultants will all benefit from the valuable insights provided by this class. Remember that this course is practical and of an extremely technical nature, so a basic understanding of networking, security, 'nix and Windows is a course prerequisite.

A registration form can be downloaded from here

Otherwise please mail training@sensepost.com for more information.

Cebit Expo 2009

SensePost have once again been invited to join the South African Department of Trade and Industry at Cebit, as one of 15 SA companies, to exhibit on their pavilion. Visitors to this show range in the region of 500,000 and approximately 5700 exhibitors fill the 27 Halls. Cebit is the biggest information and technology show in Europe and attracts exhibitors and visitors from all over the world. Our stand number is E48 in Hall 5.

If you would like to attend the show and visit the SensePost stand, please contact us to arrange your free show entry ticket . Contact email: shane@sensepost.com

Black Hat DC 2009

This is just a friendly reminder about the show (Hyatt Regency Crystal City • February 16-19). We have two courses on offer at the DC show this year - Bootcamp (a highly practical course that teaches method-based hacker thinking, skills and techniques) and Combat (all hack, no talk - our flagship course).

As always, any queries regarding our training can be directed to training@sensepost.com

Who should attend? Information security officers, system and network administrators, security consultants will all benefit from the valuable insights provided by this class. Remember that this course is practical and of an extremely technical nature, so a basic understanding of networking, security, ‘nix and Windows is a course prerequisite. Seasons Greetings 2008

From all of us at SensePost we wish our friends and our customers a joyous festive season and a prosperous new year.

Thank you for your friendship and support during 2008. We hope 2009 will be an exciting and rewarding year for you all.

HBN 'Extended Edition' - Christmas Edition

As a Christmas special we have scheduled an additional training course, Hacking By Numbers - Extended Edition (Bootcamp) in Pretoria, South Africa on November 24-28th.

The course runs for a full 5 days. This course will be offered at a never-to-be-repeated discount price of ZAR 10,999-00 (15% discount on the usual training price).

Each trainee will be given a t-shirt and a Christmas hat!

HBN 'Extended Edition' October 2008

We have scheduled the first training course for our new year, Hacking By Numbers - "Extended" Edition - for October 6-10th . The course runs for a full 5 days in Pretoria, South Africa.

The HBN 'Extended Edition' is simply an intensive, extended version of the regular Bootcamp course. Whilst the content and structure are essentially the same as Bootcamp, the Extended Edition offers students a deeper understanding of the concepts being presented and affords them more time to practice the techniques being taught. Extended Edition is currently only offered in Switzerland and South Africa, or can be arranged on request.

Who should attend? Information security officers, system and network administrators and security consultants will all benefit from the valuable insights provided by this class. Remember that this course is practical and of an extremely technical nature, so a basic understanding of networking, security, 'nix and Windows is a course prerequisite.

Click here to download a registration form.

Otherwise please mail training@sensepost.com for more information.

Black Hat Vegas

Another year has past and SensePost is returning to the Black Hat Briefings. This year's conference promises some interesting papers, including one from SensePost. This year's talk is presented by Haroon Meer and Marco Slaviero. Last year the team showed how DNS and Timing attacks could be used for a variety of attacks. This year we take those attacks further and show how small footholds in a target network can be converted into portals we can (and do) drive trucks through! Interested? Some of our thinking for this talk will also be discussed on our blog.

Black Hat is rated one of the best security conferences in the world and brings together the best and brightest the industry has to offer.

SensePost will also be presenting updated versions of our classic Hacking By Numbers Cadet , Bootcamp and Combat courses. This year for the first time we'll also be introducing our all new, all existing Hacking By Numbers Web 2.0 course. Web 2.0 is a whole new world and Hacking By Numbers - Web 2.0 Edition is a course designed to prepare you for it. Brought to you by the same team that created the successful "Bootcamp" and "Combat" editions, "Web 2.0 Edition" focuses on the knowledge, skills, tools and thinking techniques required to understand security and hacking in the Web 2.0 world.

Seasons Greetings

We'd thought we'd spread the cheer by releasing some new and some revamped tools.

Spud Version 1.0

Spud is an amalgamated search API which provides SOAP services on the localhost and amalgamates search results from Google, MSN Live Search and Yahoo into a single batch of results.

Wikto 2.0

A special, Christmas build of Wikto is available. This build includes a configurable "404" string, Spud support and updated Nikto database.

Suru Version 2.0

SensePost is pleased to announce the release of Suru version 2.0 - the new version of it's MITM proxy. Suru version 2.0 is now compatible with the .Net 2 framework and comes with a number of new feature and a cleaner GUI.

Another blog in the wall

SensePost is pleased to announce the public release of its blog site. We've been blogging internally for many years and now we've finally succumbed to pressure to make it public. Along with the blog we're also releasing a new video section and a public 'Question of Week' section modeled on 'Hacking By Numbers - Combat Grading Edition' course. Visit the new parts of our site here.