Mindset Versus Tools
Hi Everyone, It has been a while I wrote stuff about anything...blame my employers...:D. Anyway, I just want to put down a short note on why pentesters are not performing well in Nigeria. The Nigerian Cyber Environment is filled with low-hanging fruits - poorly designed system and application infrastructures are all around the corner. Thus, a regular pentester can WooooW his/her client by just running few commercial tools. In a more difficult terrain, the same pentester will issue a certificate of no risk to the client. Ok, moving ahead of myself, back to the matter - most uses I have seen of hacking tools in the real world in this part of the globe is so limited, a bit script-kiddish I might say. Even the commercial ones that come with graphical tutorials are even not fully utilised. I dont really know the reason for this, but i think we are less inquisitive about what we see or observe, we still think that some things are really hard to understand, when in actual fact, they are