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How to Stop Ransomware: Breach Prevention vs. Cobalt Strike Backdoor

Security Boulevard

With a year-on-year increase of over 161% , malicious usage of cracked versions of Cobalt Strike (a legitimate penetration test tool) is skyrocketing. Developed in 2012 to give pen testers and red teams the capability to conduct hard-to-spot test attacks, Cobalt Strike is designed to be dynamic and evasive.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

To help more people to become penetration testers, Kim Crawley and Phillip L. By that I mean the jumping over barbed wire fences, the crawling through ventilation ducts, the putting on of makeup to look like that woman from headquarters most people only see from emails -- you know, the John McClane in DIE HARD aspects of pen testing.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

To help more people to become penetration testers, Kim Crawley and Phillip L. By that I mean the jumping over barbed wire fences, the crawling through ventilation ducts, the putting on of makeup to look like that woman from headquarters most people only see from emails -- you know, the John McClane in DIE HARD aspects of pen testing.

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DEF CON 29: SEVillage Recap

Security Through Education

The team to make the brightest signal would win. Ryan is the Chief Operating Officer and Open-Source Intelligence trainer for Social-Engineer, LLC. In addition, he runs operations during penetration tests and exercises with clients, as well as managing client relationships. His topic was “SE Team vs. Red Team.”