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At Defcon in Las Vegas last month, word rapidly spread that two speakers—members of Salesforce's internal "red team"—had been fired by a senior executive from Salesforce "as they left the stage." Those two speakers, who presented under their Twitter handles, were Josh "FuzzyNop" Schwartz, Salesforce's director of offensive security, and John Cramb, a senior offensive security engineer.
Schwartz and Cramb were presenting the details of their tool, called Meatpistol. It's a "modular malware implant framework" similar in intent to the Metasploit toolkit used by many penetration testers, except that Meatpistol is not a library of common exploits, and it is not intended for penetration testing. The tool was anticipated to be released as open source at the time of the presentation, but Salesforce has held back the code.
[...] Schwartz had reportedly gotten prior approval to speak at Defcon from Salesforce management, and he was working toward getting approval to open-source Meatpistol (which is currently in a very rough "alpha" state but was at use internally at Salesforce). But at the last moment, Salesforce's management team had a change of heart, and it was trying to get the talk pulled. As ZDNet's Zach Whittaker reports, a Salesforce executive sent a text message to Schwartz and Cramb an hour before their scheduled talk, telling the pair not to announce the public release of the code.
[...] A Salesforce spokesperson contacted by Ars would not comment, stating, "We don't comment on matters involving individual employees."
Source: Ars Technica
Also at ZDNet and The Register
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday August 11 2017, @11:26PM (3 children)
Just looking at the slides and think these retards escaped from AOL last week or something. About the only thing missing was some 133t speak or a cultural ref to Hackers or some crap. Why do all "hackers" have to project as retards? Makes the whole industry look bad.
If they got canned for making Salesforce look like the kind of place that hires retards and risked scaring away serious customers it is understandable. But it only raises the question of whether anyone noticed they had total spazzed out 'tards working for them for years... and why not?
(Score: 4, Informative) by LoRdTAW on Friday August 11 2017, @11:57PM
At first I thought you were doing your usual fly off the handle bit but then I had a look at the presentation. Holy shit is it bad. It comes off as a really bad attempt humor laced with memes, video game and pop culture references. I am all for doing something different and attention grabbing or creative but this is just try hard fail.
(Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Saturday August 12 2017, @04:47AM (1 child)
Wow...for once I find I agree with jmorris. How the H-E- double toothpicks did these guys ever get such a position at Salesforce? Then again I've actually known a couple of people hired by Salesforce. They were not the sharpest tacks in the box by any means.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @08:35PM
When building such a massive system you don't want the best, you want those competent enough to do the work and unaware enough to not figure out all the nasty shit going on.