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Notes on cybersecurity hiring.
What we learn from verifying people for a living.
The exploit came first
If you run anything on PHP, this hasn't been a quiet week. On 20 October, details of two critical PHP vulnerabilities leaked ahead of their planned disclosure. Together they're known as PHP2Shell(CVE-2026-109618 and.
In the age of AI, what makes a CV compelling?
Whether you are looking nowadays for a job or thinking to do so in the near future we have good news and bad news for you. Let's begin with the good news, it has never been easier to stand out from the crowd and there.
Fifty hackers, one boat
Most capture the flag competitions happen in a conference hall. Ours happened at sea. On 8 July we crossed from Málaga to Melilla with around 50 cybersecurity professionals on board, on our way to the Cyber Fight Club.
Stop blaming the talent shortage
Everybody cites the 4.8 million vacant roles globally. But the World Economic Forum Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026just shifted the conversation: for the first time in three years of the report, skills gaps have.
Hack in Hire at RootedCON 2026
We rocked RootedCON 2026 as Silver+ Sponsors What a week. From March 5–7, Hack in Hire was on the ground at RootedCON 2026. The XVI edition of one of the most important cybersecurity conferences in Europe, held at.
Hack in Hire at TechArena 2026
In the past few days we've hit a few milestones at Hack in Hire, and they all point in the same direction: we're accelerating.
Hack in Hire has been accepted into MINC 🎉
Big milestone to share: Hack in Hire has been accepted into MINC (The Startup House of Malmö). This is an exciting step for us, not just because of the recognition, but because it puts us inside an ecosystem built for.
AI pentesters are catching up. Hiring must evolve
Artemis, the experiment A Stanford team evaluated AI agents against 10 cybersecurity professionalsin alive university network(around8,000 hosts across 12 subnets). Their scaffold, ARTEMIS, ranked near the top: itfound 9.
The cybersecurity certifications that will matter in 2026
If you work in cybersec, you already know the feeling: a new certification trend appears every six months, and suddenly your LinkedIn feed is full of shiny badges. Some of them age well. Others are hype that quietly.
A real DPRK infiltration attempt
We watched an interview collapse in real time: AI face artifacts, "native" fluency that wasn't and a LinkedIn profile that vanished mid-call. Introduction