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Advanced Penetration Testing
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The demographic of what we consider to be “hackers” has changed beyond all recognition so this introduction will be the last time I use that word. It is outdated and outmoded and the connotations it conjures up are completely inaccurate. I prefer the more neutral terms, “attacker” or “external actor,” because as you will learn, there are far worse things out there than teenage anarchists with too much time on their hands. The “Golden Age” of hacking whose anti-heroes were Mark Abene, Kevin Poulsen, Kevin Mitnick, and others was an incredibly innocent time compared to today, where the reality is stranger than the cyberpunk fiction of the 1980s that inspired so many hackers of the day.
It's been a busy couple of years. The Snowden revelations shocked the world and directly led to wide-sweeping changes in the tech industry's attitude toward security. In 2013, I had a conversation with a client that...
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