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CSIR Cyber Games

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) recently hosted the nation Cyber Games Challenge as part of Cyber Security Awareness month....

Charity Drive – Antarctica Expedition

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\ Like many businesses we at SensePost are aware of how fortunate we are and and of the many around...

CREST South Africa? Let’s talk…

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First, some background on CREST in the form of  blatant plagiarism… CREST – The Council for Registered Ethical Security Testers...

ITWeb Security Summit 2012

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This year, for the fourth time, myself and some others here at SensePost have worked together with the team from...

Hacking By Numbers – March 2012

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Our next locally scheduled training sessions have been planned for March. If you’re interested in attending, the dates and locations...

Black Hat Abu Dhabi – Full … NOT!

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The bad news is that our course at Black Hat Abu Dhabi is completely full. The good news is …...

ITWeb Security Summit 2010 & Afterparty

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The ITWeb security summit is coming up next week from the 11th to 13th of May. This is a conference...

CANSA Shavathon 2010

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This past Thursday we received notice that Boogterman & Partners would be a host company for the CANSA Shavathon 2010...

Wishlist for graduates

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We were invited to speak at the recent ISSA2009 conference in Joburg, a local mostly academic security conference and I...

Open Patch Management Survey

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Rich Mogull (who’s stuff I really quite dig) has launched an ‘Open Patch Management Survey’ via the SecurityMetrics blog. Its...

Sensepost’s HBN Extended Edition course 11-15th May

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

Jack C. Louis: Jan 5, 1977 – March 14, 2009

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Truly tragic. We are all poorer for it.. It really was an honor and a privilege to have known him.....

Cebit Expo 2009

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SensePost have once again been invited to join the South African Department of Trade and Industry at Cebit, as one...

Joe Grand (Kingpin) gets famouser!

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  This is probably really old news (to some), but was in the company of sattelite TV this weekend and...

ITWeb Security Summit 2009 – CFP Deadline

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I just wanted to remind everyone that the CFP for the 2009 ITWeb Security Summit closes on 26 Jan. We’re...

Ted Speaker List up and Free hackin9

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(aka 2 completely unrelated topics) You can grab a free copy of the Hackin9 magazine [here]  And you can view...

Penetration Testing in 2009 – Opposing Viewpoints

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The last few weeks have brought some fairly interesting predictions for 2009 to bear in CSO Magazine columns. Two recent...

South Africa’s own IT Security “pubcast”

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Our good friend Anthony Olivier has launched his “IT Security Pubcast“. So far 2 episodes are online, with episode #2...

ITWeb Security Summit 2009 – CFP Now Open

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A couple of months back SensePost  were asked by a prominent South African media company to assist in the selection...

You know you are getting old..

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When you blog a link to poetry: [The man watching] is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, that i picked...

Very decent Security Podcast..

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I am probably one of the last ppl around to discover this, but ill post it here for the (probably)...