This year’s AppSec Europe was hosted in Rome, Italy and I decided to participate as a volunteer in order to help the OWASP organization and meet up with my friends of the Italian OWASP chapter. It was my first time at AppSec Europe and it was truly amazing. The event started with some hands on trainings running on 27th-28th-29th June …
Penetration testing course: 0x02 Prerequisites
I receive A LOT of private messages by people interested in “hacking”. 7 out of 10 are (sadly) people interested in learning how to hack a Facebook account, hack an email account, send spam through SMTP servers, find a good proxy for hiding their tracks while performing illegal activities (without having a clear concept of anonymity and privacy in mind) …
Penetration testing course: 0x01 Introduction
I often receive messages from people asking me how to become a hacker, how to hack a website or how to become a professional penetration tester. I usually reply case by case if I’m free and if I feel the person is truly interested in the field and he’s not trying to do some illegal activities (often without the minimum …