I have built:
- A security testing repo: github.com/The-XSS-Rat/Secur…
- An API hacking tool: github.com/The-XSS-Rat/hackx…
- A blog: blog.hackxpert.com/ (Yeah I know cert expired, will look into that today)
- 150 exploits 6 lifelike labs: labs.hackxpert.com/
- A student base of over 180 000 big: udemy.com/user/wesley-thijs/…
- A wealth of courses: thexssrat.com/
- A youtube channel with over 1200 video's: youtube.com/c/thexssrat
- A medium with over 7300 followers: thexssrat.medium.com/
- An incredible fanbase of over 50 000 rats on youtube 150 000 here
- A discord server with over 10 000 members one for CAPIE CNWPP Hacker's toolkit
- A list of 10 students i got to directly reporting bugs: thexssrat.podia.com/achievem…
- A song: youtube.com/watch?v=S3bP3juJ… (No AI)
- A family of my own
- Reports on some of the giants of this earth
- A pentesting company
And still i get constantly attacked for not knowing anything - just copy pasting shit and not being good enough :-) hahaha you are so funny - THEN GO DO BETTER <3 Much love rat pack!! Thank you for the support!
22 euro's - 3 certifications - web API and pentesting
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YEP I am loosing money on this one to proctor the exams - butttt I want my certs out there and you are lucky. Buy them now and do them later
- They do not expire
- You get 3 tries
- All support by certs.thexssrat.com
- Public hash verified certs
- Discord server per cert
- Live lessons
- How can you fail? Easy ... don't study and just do the exam ... which is why this one comes with ALL my needed course materials.
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Bug bounty is not dead - it is just getting started
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The platforms are over-run with bad AI reports so let's change that and put our name on some real bugs.
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This is me, my group and the people I coached to success, are you next?
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Reading about defense isn't the same as doing defense. 🐀
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