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Praetorian
Company blog · praetorian.com/blogsecurityai
Praetorian is the company blog at praetorian.com, writing about security and ai. Since 2014, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 82 times, most often “Reversing and Exploiting Embedded Devices: The Software Stack (Part 1)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (24) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link praetorian.com mostly for its job postings and security services, and for write-ups such as the PHP-CGI bug, pwn-request GitHub Actions hacking, Azure B2C crypto misuse and Signal deniability.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 24 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /challenges/3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-06-27
- Reversing and Exploiting Embedded Devices: The Software Stack (Part 1)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-02
- Introducing: GitHub Device Code Phishing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-12
- Technical Advisory – Azure B2C – Crypto Misuse and Account Compromise3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-19
- GoKart, a Smarter Go Security Scanner2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-19
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-01
What Hacker News says?
Company: Praetorian Location: Austin, Texas Tags: REMOTE Positions: Security Engineer (Penetration Tester). More details at our careers page ( http://www.praetorian.com/company/careers ). Hello from Praetorian! We are looking for Security Engineers who like to break things. If you consider yourself a builder and a breaker and see an alignment with our vision, please apply. We recently updated our careers page so all…
Comment linking /challenges/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Public secrets exposure leads to supply chain attack on GitHub CodeQL as a story · 297 points
HN discussionPraetorian | Austin, Texas Praetorian is different. We are a collective of highly-technical engineers focused on helping our clients solve their most difficult security problems. Rather than break things over and over, our goal is to have an actual impact in making the world a better place. 100% privately owned and self-funded, we are focused on doing the right thing over short term profits. Where other companies pa…
Comment linking /challenges/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Spring Core on JDK9 is vulnerable to remote code execution as a story · 157 points
HN discussionPraetorian | Austin, Texas | REMOTE (For principal and staff positions) Praetorian is different. We are a collective of highly-technical engineers focused on helping our clients solve their most difficult security problems. Rather than break things over and over, our goal is to have an actual impact in making the world a better place. 100% privately owned and self-funded, we are focused on doing the right thing over…
Comment linking /challenges/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted Statistics Will Crack Your Password as a story · 17 points
HN discussionPraetorian | Austin, Texas | REMOTE Praetorian is different. We are a collective of highly-technical engineers focused on helping our clients solve their most difficult security problems. Rather than break things over and over, our goal is to have an actual impact in making the world a better place. 100% privately owned and self-funded, we are focused on doing the right thing over short term profits. Where other com…
Comment linking /challenges/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted Ghost Calls: Abusing Web Conferencing for Covert Command and Control as a story · 9 points
HN discussionPraetorian | Austin, Texas | REMOTE (For principal and staff positions) Praetorian is different. We are a collective of highly-technical engineers focused on helping our clients solve their most difficult security problems. Rather than break things over and over, our goal is to have an actual impact in making the world a better place. 100% privately owned and self-funded, we are focused on doing the right thing over…
Comment linking /challenges/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted End-To-End WhatsApp Encryption: Why Signal Protocol Is So Well-Designed as a story · 6 points
HN discussionPraetorian | Multiple positions | Austin, TX - Washington, DC - REMOTE | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | https://www.praetorian.com Praetorian is a collective of highly technical engineers and developers offering deep security expertise that is solving the toughest challenges faced by today’s organizations across an ever-evolving digital threat landscape. Our solutions enable clients to find, fix, stop and ultimately solve cybe…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted JavaScript Sensor API and New Browser Features Raise Privacy Concerns as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCompany: Praetorian Location: Austin, Texas Citizenship Required Keywords: REMOTE (For principal positions) Positions: Directory of Security Research, Security Engineer (Penetration Tester). More details at http://www.praetorian.com/company/careers . Why Join Praetorian? Praetorian strongly encourages company paid security training, company paid attendance to major conferences such as BlackHat, DEFCON, and AppSec US…
Comment linking /challenges/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)”Submitted Pwning Gnomes: Where CTF Meets 2015 SANS Holiday Hack (Write-Up) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionPraetorian | Security Engineer | Austin, Texas | REMOTE (For principal and staff positions) Praetorian is different. We are a collective of highly-technical engineers focused on helping our clients solve their most difficult security problems. Rather than break things over and over, our goal is to have an actual impact in making the world a better place. 100% privately owned and self-funded, we are focused on doing…
Comment linking /challenges/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)”Submitted Nosey Parker: An AI Based Secrets Scanner That Out Sniffs the Competition as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHe's right about the low entropy of many crypto random number generators. There are so many cases of this that it can't be by accident. 2013: Android random number flaw exploited for Bitcoin theft. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/google-confirms-crit... Backdoor in RSA? http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/how-the-nsa-may-have... Linus Torvalds insists on accepting Intel patch to use their hardware random…
Comment linking /blog/man-in-the-middle-tls-ssl-protocol-downgrade-attack
on “Making sure crypto remains insecure [pdf]”Submitted Introducing Gladius: Automatic Responder Cracking for Internal Pentests as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCompany: Praetorian Location: Austin, Texas Keywords: INTERN, REMOTE Positions: Directory of Security Research, Security Engineer (Penetration Tester). More details at http://www.praetorian.com/company/careers . Why Join Praetorian? Praetorian strongly encourages company paid security training, company paid attendance to major conferences such as BlackHat and Shmoocon, and company paid bench time to do the research…
Comment linking /challenges/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)”Submitted IoT Project Maps 1,586 Unique Devices and Fingerprints 956 Manufacturer Names as a story · 5 points
HN discussionPraetorian | Multiple positions | Austin, TX - Washington, DC - REMOTE | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | https://www.praetorian.com Praetorian is a collective of highly technical engineers and developers offering deep security expertise that is solving the toughest challenges faced by today’s organizations across an ever-evolving digital threat landscape. Our solutions enable clients to find, fix, stop and ultimately solve cybe…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)”Submitted Life at Praetorian, an Information Security Company [Internal Magazine Release] as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFrom the top of my head..: The Praetorian Bootcamp challenges are similar to the Matasano ones: https://www.praetorian.com/challenges/ Lisp Koans: https://github.com/google/lisp-koans Project Euler: https://projecteuler.net/ Exercism: http://exercism.io/ 99 Lisp Problems: http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~meidanis/courses/mc336/2006s2/func...
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on “Running Lisp in Production”Submitted Introducing: GitHub Device Code Phishing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes, use FIDO, you'll be better off, but no, passkeys aren't immune to account takeover. E.g. not only does GitHub support OAuth apps, it supports device code flow, and thus: https://www.praetorian.com/blog/introducing-github-device-co... .
Comment linking /blog/introducing-github-device-code-phishing/
on “DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware”Submitted SPAM Filters: A Reliable Protection Against Phishing Attacks? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAutomotive Pentesting has been an industry for years [0][1][2] [0] - https://www.praetorian.com/services/automotive-penetration-t... [1] - https://plaxidityx.com/ [2] - https://autocrypt.io/
Comment linking /services/automotive-penetration-testing/
on “Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)”Submitted Machine Learning Tutorial as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttps://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/27065 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77090044/github-actions-... https://www.praetorian.com/blog/pwn-request-hacking-microsof... All you need is user content containing `backticked`, and a github action referencing that via eg "github.event.issue.title" where the shell would normally execute `backticked` as a command (like echo, cat, etc).
Comment linking /blog/pwn-request-hacking-microsoft-github-repositories-and-more/
on “GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories”Submitted Statistics Based Password Cracking Rules Released as a story · 4 points
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