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Shelby Matthews

Shelby Matthews is a Community Content Associate at Cobalt. She works to empower the Cobalt Core of professional pentesters, by providing them with a platform to produce content and showcase their expertise. She graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in Journalism and uses it to bring the Cobalt Core's stories to life.

Pentester Spotlight: Razvan Ionescu, Romania's 3rd GIAC Security Expert

November 30, 2022
Est Read Time: 5 min
Razvan Ionescu has been pentesting with the Cobalt Core since 2018. He recently became a GIAC Security Expert, Romania's third. Read more about Razvan in his Pentester Spotlight.
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Pentesting Made Simple, an Italian Hacking Community

November 3, 2022
Est Read Time: 2 min
Core Pentester Reando Veshi has started his own hacking community in Italy: Pentesting Made Simple.
Pentester Stories Cobalt Core

Pentester Feedback to Product Updates

November 2, 2022
Est Read Time: 3 min
Cobalt Core Pentesters can provide Cobalt's Product Team with direct feedback that is often translated into the platform. Director of Product, Mark Hamill, walks us through what that process looks like.
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Pentester Spotlight: Alexis Fernández, Retired Developer takes on Pentesting

October 26, 2022
Est Read Time: 3 min
Alexis Fernandez has been a member of the Cobalt Core for a little over a year now. He started in security as a Web Developer before switching to ethical hacking.
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What it means to be in the Cobalt Core

October 18, 2022
Est Read Time: 4 min
What does it mean to be in the Cobalt Core? I asked some of our Core Pentesters about their experiences in the Core and what has been most memorable for them.
Pentester Stories Cobalt Core

Pentester of the Quarter: Farid Luhar

October 5, 2022
Est Read Time: 1 min
The Cobalt Community team is excited to announce that our Q4 Pentester of the Quarter is Farid Luhar! Farid has been...
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Pentester Spotlight: Nilesh Sapariya

October 3, 2022
Est Read Time: 7 min
Pentester Origin Story: How did you first get involved in pentesting? Back in time, when I was in 2nd year of...
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Pentester Diaries: Full-time Freelance Pentesting

September 14, 2022
Est Read Time: 2 min
This episode of Pentester Diaries is about the benefits of being a full-time freelance pentester. I sat down with Core Pentesters Harsh Bothra and Parveen Yadav to talk about their daily lives and how they manage to be a full-time freelancer.
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Pentester Spotlight: Apoorva Jois; Do you want to build or break?

August 26, 2022
Est Read Time: 3 min
Do you want to build or break? That's the million-dollar question that got Core Pentester Apoorva Jois interested in hacking. She walked us through her journey as a Pentester on the younger side of the industry.
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