Ep. 9 with Panagiotis Chartas - We think we know what it takes to build hacking tools
Season 1 Episode 9
🎙️ Why would someone spend a lot of their time making penetration testing tools? Especially when it takes what it takes to maintain them.
Today on We think we know, we're peeling back the layers of offensive security with the enigmatic Panagiotis Chartas, also known by his alias - T3l3machus - a nod to his Greek heritage and the strategic depth of his expertise.
Stay tuned as we explore how tools like Nmap and sqlmap have shaped penetration testing over the last two decades, and stick around to discover which aspects make pentesting predominantly a craft - and which parts have become standardized (and what that means for your work).
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📚 RESOURCES
How to create your own GitHub projects - • Creating your own GitHub Projects
John Hammond about hacking using Villain - • catch EVERY reverse shell while hacking! (...
Villain - https://github.com/t3l3machus/Villain
Toxssin - https://github.com/t3l3machus/toxssin
Hoaxshell - https://github.com/t3l3machus/hoaxshell
BabelStrike - https://github.com/t3l3machus/BabelSt...
Kerberos - https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/
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We think we know how computer systems work, but how come they keep surprising us? We also think we know how humans behave, but we keep finding out we don’t.
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🔖 CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
04:45 Why he started making tools
08:03 Key learnings from building them
17:00 Villain - making of
22:25 Why factor in maintenance
38:34 How sqlmap changed pentesting
48:16 A surprising background
53:47 Outro