Super happy and excited to announce that PentesterAcademy has been acquired by INE!
This is a great outcome for our customers, employees and shareholders!
Email attachments and website files can be the source of malware. As Hackers/Security/IT folks we know how easy it is to evade existing probabilistic Anti-Virus models across all vendors.
We've added a new feature "Download Interceptor" which can now seamlessly help you view
I am literally buying scam NFTs and pump-dump tokens just to get a first hand view of how they work, live!
Am I crazy? 😂 or an obsessed security researcher?
Happy 40th B'Day to myself!
Thanks everyone for making the past decade so memorable!
Here's to dedicating the next decade to make a positive impact on cybersecurity education! 🍻
I am thrilled to announce that I have been appointed as the Microsoft Regional Director for Security. Details coming soon! I would like to thank
@askudrati
for the nomination and the Microsoft RD team for the kind consideration.
Our latest release includes a Download Interceptor feature which allows you to view any file coming from a website or webmail inside a sandbox. We've made the flow streamlined and seamless.
Try SquareX :
Read the blog post:
I've spoken to dozens of founders the past 2 years in India-Singapore and the most difficult-taboo discussion with investors seems to be about Founder Compensation.
The younger founders are too scared to bring it up and the older ones worry they'd be judged as high maintenance
BIG NEWS! Our AWS Cloud Playgrounds go live this month! This will allow you to learn AWS Security in "sandboxed" real accounts - tons of challenges are being worked on by the team! Azure and GCP are next!
The room where I started - brings back fond memories - every amazing journey has a super humble beginning! If you see closely at the screen - I am uploading video content to S3 :-). 👇
We are thrilled to welcome Pavel Yosifovich, the co-author of Windows Internals 7th edition to our team! We will be launching his first course "Windows Process Injection Fundamentals for Red-Blue Teams" next week on PentesterAcademy! Super excited! cc:
@zodiacon
Exciting times! Looking forward to hosting labs for
@georgiaweidman
's epic book! great news for all her book readers and for folks searching for awesome beginner cybersecurity content!
Happy B'Day to me!
I am giving away SquareX
@getsquarex
shirts, signed copies of Hackers: Superheroes of the Digital Age, and stickers!
Make this B'Day memorable for me and participate:
- Like and share this post
- Visit and try SquareX
- Reply to
Excited to launch: a free community website to allow anyone to upload suspicious files and view them in a safe way without any chance of getting infected/hacked.
We have also launched a Bug Bounty Program for the same website with prizes totalling USD
Great News! We will be launching Windows based labs delivered via the browser in the next 2 weeks! Tons of new lab exercises being worked on! This will be epic! Who's excited? :-)
Once non-tech folks know you work in cybersecurity they assume you must be getting everything by "hacking it"
"Do you ever pay for hotel Wi-Fi when traveling?"
"Can you recover my FB account, it got hacked"
"Do you hack ppl you dislike? their webcams?"
...
Anyone relates?
Happy Holidays! Some cool giveaways:
3 Winners: Cloud Security Bootcamp [$400] + T-Shirt [Priceless]
To enter:
✅Make sure you are following us
✅Tag a fellow cybersecurity learner
✅Retweet this Post
Winners will be randomly selected on Christmas Eve!
FINALLY! Just released Hackers: Superheroes of the Digital Age, Issue 1!
Please download it here:
Print edition, stickers, swag, and fan packs are launching in January! We will be releasing a new issue every month - so stay tuned!
Feeling privileged so many folks are thanking me for following them :-) Hope we can always live up to your expectations and continue to push the envelope of online cybersecurity training further! Thanks everyone! 🙏🙏🙏
Get a guaranteed SquareX T-shirt, comic, and sticker pack shipped to you!
@getsquarex
My B'day giveaway response has been overwhelming! We felt it would be unfair to choose from just a few. So we've decided to ship our swag pack to everyone how tries the product and leaves a
Friday Giveaway!
1 Seat for our Cloud Security Bootcamp: AWS Edition ($399) beginning this weekend.
To Participate:
✅ Like and Retweet this
✅ Reply with why you want to learn AWS Security
I was lucky my parents bought me a computer when I was 18 (year 1998). This was a time when India hardly had any home computers and a VSNL graphics account was crazy expensive.
Having access early made all the difference to my future professional life.
Attack on our payment systems still ongoing - thousands of cards tried with different IPs so its clearly a DDoS. Clearly an attempt to shut us down so our payment provider reacts! 😠
We are planning to launch a dedicated bootcamp for Linux Privilege Escalation - beginner to advanced edition!
Simple escalations to container breakouts, and bypassing linux capabilities and beyond! Everything in our wonderful labs!
What do you think?
What topics are most difficult for beginners when they begin cybersecurity? Folks from both tech and non-tech background?
🥳 If you suggest great topics we will invite you to pilot our basics labs! :-)
It's a special day so time to give back :-)
3 'Pentesting with Metasploit' Bootcamp Seats!
✅ Like and Retweet this message
✅ Reply with how this bootcamp will help you
Winners will be announced June 30th on this thread!
Thanksgiving Giveaway! T-Shirt + Hoodie for 3 Winners.
To participate: Reply to this tweet and tell us why would love to get our swag! :-)
Ends 26th midnight - Winners will be announced 27th morning!
Big Milestone day today - Hackers: Superheroes of the Digital Age Issue
#1
of my comic book is now getting printed! 2000 copies in the first run. Want early access? signup:
Cybersecurity is an always-in-demand professional as any new tech comes - there will be a security angle to explore & exploit
It's also the most unforgiving if you don't stay constantly updated. I routinely find my knowledge obsolete in any topic I have not followed > 6 months
Holiday Giveaways: 3 winners will get a signed comic book + T-Shirt + Stickers pack shipped to them!
Step 1: Download and read Hackers Issue
#1
here:
Step 2: Reply to this post and tell us what you liked about it
Winners will be announced on Dec 26th!
Always wanted to write your own security tools for Windows? We are launching a Windows System Programming fundamentals course by
@zodiacon
next week! This will be epic!
India urgently needs a strong data security and privacy act and the will to enforce it.
The rate at which hacks are happening, every online Indian's PII information will be on the dark web soon.
Most companies don't care as there is no real penalty when they get hacked.
CTFs give out Challenge Coins to winners but we were thinking of giving out a real 2400 year old Alexander the Great (330 BC) coin (~usd 300) as our next CTF prize! 🤠Any takers?
The Internet, 20 years back, was my getaway from the madness of the real world.
Today, the real world has become the getaway from the craziness of the Internet.
I interviewed a candidate with an impressive list of code projects on his resume. I complimented him but he told me he still had Imposter Syndrome. Later, I ran a code search on some of his Github projects and turns out they were copied from other repos. Joke's on me.
PentesterAcademy Scholarships: 3 Annual Subscriptions giveaway!
- Tag a student/professional who is trying to break into cybersecurity
- Tell us why they deserve this scholarship
Top 3 will be awarded a scholarship on 19th October!
No matter when I sleep I wake up by 6AM :-) My grandmother used to wake me up to study at 5AM everyday for 15 years so I guess its now irreversible. Wanted to get more sleep today but body clock wins! :( Weather seems perfect for sleep :)
I am Tamil by descent, raised in Kolkata but studied Hindi as first language. I speak Bengali-Hindi with native fluency but ok Tamil
Identity crisis: South Indians call me Bengali (ok Tamil), Bengalis call me North Indian (good Hindi) & North Indians call me South Indian (name)
Got a new photo taken today for a press release and the photographer asked "Would you like me to remove the dark circles and touch things up?"
Me: "No, I'd like to wear them with pride - battle scars acquired over the years. This is who I am."
Major milestone achieved by the team on our cloud security labs! Azure, AWS and GCP security labs coming to
@SecurityTube
in September! What an awesome day :-)
You are never too old to learn. Pick up the book/manual and read. Especially, the technology space is very unforgiving if you are not constantly updating yourself. Its easy to get obsolete and your generalist approach to solving problems won't work in niche fields.
Dunno what all the ruckus is about - a company board has every right to ask a CEO to step down when they underperform and to offer a graceful exit.
No founder/CEO should hold a company and board hostage just to keep their position, especially when they hold a minority share
Open Source does not automatically mean SECURE just because anyone can 'audit' the source code.
How many of us have audited open source projects we have used? Everyone assumes 'someone else' has had a look!
True?
"Should I learn Python, or should I learn how to use ChatGPT to write programs for me?" my non-technical friend's son asked me today at a lunch gathering.
The question reminded me of a similar one circulating about 10 years ago: "Should I learn C programming, or should I learn
[Life Learnings] Believe in yourself/your work, even if others don't!
In 2002, as a 2nd year student at IIT, I wrote a paper "Detecting ARP Spoofing: An Active Technique" with a working prototype of the NIDS proposed in it. Worked well!
Some folks have super high energy when trolling/being negative/abusive on social media, but when it comes to investing the same time/aggressive commitment for their own betterment or helping someone, they go dormant.
If you have extra time/energy- do good! at least for yourself
If you are doing it right, running a company is one of the most difficult jobs in the world -be responsible during the impossibly difficult days. Had a family emergency today - took care of things but still made sure all important mails replied to before I hit bed! (crazy tired)