Andrew Martinez

Founder and CEO of @HackerSec

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

There is the good AI engineer and there is the good entrepreneur. A person being good at both things is very rare.

The biggest mistake many people are making is being technically good, but not being good as entrepreneurs and still wanting to bet on a business just because they can build it with AI.

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Alex Karp shares Palantir’s secret to sales:

“We hope you go to an LLM company.”

“No matter how bad this conference is, we could never sell you like they’ll sell you, which is—giving you something that makes you feel smart while your business goes out of business.”

“You’re going to go home feeling poorer and less safe. You’ll buy the product, and pay a lot in tokens, and it’s going to be very hard to understand how it helps you.”

“But, investors will know you’re smart.”

“Feel free to go learn about that and you’ll find: there’s a myriad of problems these models solve, and an even bigger amount of problems they create.”

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

Our goal of ZEROING the number of false positives in vulnerabilities reported by Yaga is not to replace pentesters, but quite the opposite, to expand our team of pentesters that currently already operate with Yaga, analyzing, validating and improving increasingly deep results in pentests.

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

In recent days, we have worked intensively on Yaga, the pentest agent from @HackerSec, reducing the false positive rate for vulnerabilities found from 8% to 2.2%. The expectation is to bring it below 1% by August.

[HackerSec @HackerSec]

HackerSec & e-Safer: Partners in Next-Gen Offensive Cybersecurity

https://t.co/v8bQ92RAw3

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

Opus 4.8 launching... let's test it.

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

@Ferrari thinks it's in 1990

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

$109,990 Tesla Model S Plaid vs $640,000 Ferrari Luce EV

[HackerSec @HackerSec]

Penetration testing made simple, just the way it should be.

https://t.co/01t7KNGizx

[HackerSec @HackerSec]

How YAGA bypasses protected environments with Pentest

https://t.co/pV2y09lM2B

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

Mythos? Companies can't stand an attack test with Sonnet 4.6. You don't need Mythos to compromise 99% of companies around the world.

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

@Xai realized that the only way to accelerate the pace of grok cli was to release for supergrok. are there still chances to compete directly with @AnthropicAI and @OpenAI? Maybe.

[HackerSec @HackerSec]

How Yaga Exploits Chained Vulnerabilities

https://t.co/wA237vPJcU

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

Claude Opus 4.8 should be released between today and tomorrow?

The silence from @AnthropicAI is deafening.

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

This is nothing new. And it's not just the CIA that can do that.

[Patrick Webb @Patrickwebb]

BREAKING: The CIA can reportedly hack into TVs, turn their speakers into microphones to listen to conversations, and use Wi-Fi radio signals to detect movement or roughly map indoor spaces through walls, per former CIA officer John Kiriakou.

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

Do you know why Brazil cannot become a global power? Because Brazil always stays in the middle ground.

In the middle ground between becoming a Venezuela or Cuba and becoming a China or Russia.

We do not become Venezuela or Cuba because the politicians here know that, if they do that, they lose power. They know they cannot completely break with the US and the international game because sooner or later the bill comes due.

But we also do not become a power like China or Russia because, for that to happen, the people would have to get out of poverty, the country would have to truly grow, industry would have to evolve, technology would have to advance and the population would have to become stronger.

And strong people remove criminals from power.

So Brazil stays exactly where politicians want it to stay.

Not poor enough to become an isolated dictatorship that draws the world’s attention.

Not strong enough to become a power that frees the people from dependency.

It stays in the middle.

It gives the US what it needs to give.

It lets other countries exploit what they need to exploit. And meanwhile, politicians keep stealing in peace.

This is the game in Brazil.

Deceive the people just enough to stay in power. Steal just enough to become super rich. But without breaking everything to the point of losing control.

Unlike countries that were worse than us and understood that the game changed, Brazil remains trapped in the same old little game from the 1990s.

It is sad to say, but years and years go by and Brazil does not change. And not because of lack of potential. But because those who rule here gain a lot from Brazil being exactly this mediocre thing it is today.

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

@HackerSec's AI, Yaga, recently launched, also uses engines from Anthropic, OpenAI and some other companies. And I can say that offensive cybersecurity is about to revolutionize the software market. Where staying on the defensive will no longer be enough.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Last month we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative AI cybersecurity initiative. Since then, we and our partners have found more than ten thousand high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in essential software.

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

HackerSec is deconstructing the old traditional pentest. Transforming the way pentests are performed and how results are delivered.

[HackerSec @HackerSec]

You know those pentest PDF reports that take weeks to generate and only show up at the end of the project? HackerSec ended that.

On the HAS platform, reports are generated in real time, anytime, with one click. Maturity, executive, technical. You pick.

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

That's it!

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

[CNBC @CNBC]

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

[Andrew Martinez @AndrewHackerSec]

I see professionals trying to hide and avoid the use of AI inside their companies because they are afraid of being replaced. Do you know what will happen?

Someone else will use AI and show your boss that they can be more effective, faster, and cheaper. That person will stay in the company. And you, who chose to hide and deny the use of AI, may actually be replaced by them.

We are living in a time when the use of AI can no longer be denied, it needs to be improved.

AI is a tool to support good professionals who know how to use it, not to replace them. But those who insist on denying this evolution are practically opening the door to being replaced by those who accepted to learn.