Vivek Ramachandran
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Founder, SquareX ( @getsquarex ) | (exited) Founder, PentesterAcademy ( @securitytube ) - acquired by INE ( @ine ) | Defcon - Blackhat Speaker | Book Author
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Exciting News: SquareX (
@getsquarex
) has raised USD 6M seed round from Sequoia Capital (
@SequoiaIndiaSEA
)!
We want to take this opportunity to thank
@singh_sequoia
,
@smdcmc
,
@RajanAnandan
, Abheek Anand for believing in our vision, the team, and me. We feel incredibly
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The most insecure place in the world? A hacker paradise? 😂
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How many folks would love a "Cloud Security" bootcamp? :-)
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Super happy and excited to announce that PentesterAcademy has been acquired by INE!
This is a great outcome for our customers, employees and shareholders!
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Explain ransomware so even a non-technical person/child can understand?
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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
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What do you think the "Hello World" equivalent in cybersecurity should be? an Nmap scan? :-) Thoughts?
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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?
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Stages of cybersecurity self-awareness in an enterprise.
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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! 🍻
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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.
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We have some spare "Pentester Academy" water bottles at the office. Any takers? 🤓
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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:
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How many of you know us from the days? Just curious :-)
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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
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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!
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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 :-). 👇
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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
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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!
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Recover Wi-Fi Password on Windows? Simple command! Please don't try this on your colleague's laptop :-)
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Down memory lane (2007)! Lab room where I spent crazy hours working on wireless security and finally discovering the Caffe Latte attack.
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The world needs a hacker superhero comic! With cyber becoming the fourth pillar of warfare, its about time!
Agree?
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The most common question I get from our students is:
How do i get my dream job?
Here is a 'hack' to get your dream job: 👇👇👇
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Which is your favorite open source security tool in recent times? Post a GitHub/Gitlab link in your response!
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Math is such a beautiful subject and I feel math-phobia in children happens when you have bad teachers in early school who make it a painful process.
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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
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What tools do you use to Pentest AWS/Azure/GCP cloud deployments?
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Happy 41st B'Day to me :-) The clock just struck 12 here!
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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
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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? :-)
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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?
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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!
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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!
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Speaking to multiple schools today on cybersecurity careers. My ending slide ...
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Arbitrary code execution just by cloning remote git repositories! Very cute bug :)
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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! 🙏🙏🙏
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I've heard there are some good telegram channels for cybersecurity. Which ones do you use? posting a link would be great.
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Our test swag T-Shirt just arrived! Who wants one? :-)
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What would you prefer to be addressed as?
Hacker or
Security Researcher or
Pentester or
Red teamer or
Blue Teamer?
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What do you love most about being in the field of cybersecurity?
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Deep work!
PentesterAcademy t-shirts are like a home attire for me now!
Was planning another t-shirt giveaway! Anyone likes these?
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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
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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
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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.
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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! 😠
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Hate to brag - but feels great that both MIT and Princeton are our customers now :-) Notable as they are education institutes themselves.
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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?
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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! :-)
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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!
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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!
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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:
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Why are people saying JioMeet is a ripoff of Zoom? Clearly distinguishable - darker shades of both orange and blue!
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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
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Tesla and SpaceX security teams must be working overtime after Anonymous' message.
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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!
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Happy Diwali to everyone from Pentester Academy! Thanks for making this year so special for us 🥳
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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!
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Never in a million years would have thought that I'd be shipping these to India.
Praying things get better soon!
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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.
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Python vs Go for cybersec - which one do you prefer and why?
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In a few decades, I am sure the Olympics will also have CTFs as a sport!
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All the other Vivek Ramachandrans would hate that I've won the SEO competition 😁
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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?
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Nothing like eating authentic Tamil food from a banana leaf, nature's plate :)
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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.
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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.
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We are experimenting with creating beginner friendly labs! Here is a demo of a Wi-Fi pentesting basics one. What do you think?
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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!
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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 :)
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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)
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[Cool Tool] Apache Attack Log Analysis using Angle Grinder
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[Team Blog] Hacking JWT Tokens: Bruteforcing Weak Signing Key (Hashcat)
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Puja just finished at home today! God bless everyone!
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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."
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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 :-)
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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.
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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
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That moment when you install a fresh version of Ubuntu to do experiments :-)
Anyone relate?
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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?
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"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
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[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!
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Look what I found at the office!
Any takers? It's a limited edition now :)
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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
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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)
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Are you pentesting AWS, Azure or GCP cloud deployments? Any interesting vulnerability trends? Any common mistakes everyone makes?
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Great Twitter Year - I started actively posting only in the last 6 months and can't believe over 9K follow me now 🙏
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[Team Blog] Hacking JWT Tokens: Bruteforcing Weak Signing Key (jwtcrack)
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Just received the finished painting! Love it!
What do you think?
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We are hiring interns worldwide! Working professionals can apply too if you have spare cycles. Please share and tag anyone you think could benefit.
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