CTF style challenges like praetorian are the standard for offensive security roles. They are a fun time and really let the teams understand how you approach things.
Only bad experience with that was patreons ctf, the containers didn’t work so I spent the hour interview trying to get it to run. Horrible experience.
I can’t think of a single software that does not have fierce competition. Just today, YouTube, slack, chrome, Claude, burpsuite, interm, obsidian, nest, outlook, Zillow, AWS, cloudflare,GitHub, Roborock, jetbrains.
They could all be replaced and do 90% of the job immediately and a week later figure out the last 10%.
As as for work, coinbase is not the only exchange, square is one of many, meta is another social media site.
I’m not a crypto hater (I used to work security at coinbase) but I think that while a chrome or iPhone zeroday might be worth less in bug bounty it’s worth more for a security engineers career long term.
Having the iPhone bug and the accompanying conference talk and blog post will allow you get hired by nearly any good security or tech company. No one cares about blockchain bugs except other crypto companies. When I and a bunch of other coinbase engineers were looking for jobs we were looked down at for even working in crypto. And weren’t even in the blockchain team! Just regular engineers.
I myself have dedicated a couple of months to testing gnosis and curve that each have $2 million bounties but turned up short. Last year I switched to a ML based fuzzing research and was able to speak at defcon and got crazy offers after publication.
I have not used the online version but you could have just as easily walked into a western union and done the exact same thing for substantially less fees.
I hate the term cyber over infosec but anyway I’ve spoken to two CISO’s just this month who told me their primary directive is integrating LLM’s into event analysis and triage. So it’s definitely happening.
I live in Austin and lived in San Antonio and the same complaints about the DA and underreported crime are rampant, especially if you believe the subreddit or my uncle who lives 6hrs away in small town and hasn’t visited in 4 years. How true is that really?
Sounds nice. I grew up in El Paso Texas and there is a huge refinery in the lower valley and it completely ruined the quality of life. It’s located in a poor immigrant neighborhood right in the city core.
You can see the flares burning all day and all night. The smell in the surrounding neighborhood is unbearable. Every day tankers line up outside causing traffic jams so much that the refinery has to hire police traffic controllers. More than once I recall a truck crashing and spilling its contents while growing up.
You post this type of message in nearly every crypto thread yet every time you are pressed you don’t name a single company, project, or thought leader.
Personally I’ve worked at both coinbase and a blockchain company called avalanche. I think crypto is scams all the way down.
Only bad experience with that was patreons ctf, the containers didn’t work so I spent the hour interview trying to get it to run. Horrible experience.