Re: "PenTest" a container file

[Jan Heisterkamp <janheisterkamp () web de>]

Javier Fernández-Sanguino schrieb:
> Thor (Hammer of God) dijo:
> > modem.  I mean, what kind of application development company using 
> > their own
> > encryption algorithm would hire someone to crack it who has to post to
> > PenTest for advice on what his first steps should be?
>
> You will be surprised at the number of companies (even govt's) that do 
> not do proper background checking of the companies they hire for 
> security. Some companies/agencies just look at the money of the 
> proposal and hire the cheapest guys around.
>
> From my experience, some european companies that have to run audits 
> every year (typically "summarised" to a pentest) and cannot repeat 
> with the same company until X years go by [1] will sometimes contract 
> some very lame company with good "presence" and no skills.
>
> Regards
>
> Javier
>
> [1] Due to legitimate concerns of companies "getting comfortable" and 
> not doing proper work the second time around.
>
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In my opinion he is a student or something like this and they gave it to 
him as a kind of homework.
I recomended him how to do this but he disagreed and said that he wanted 
to extract the password from RAM [cough...cough]

saludos
Jan

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