Kicking off – OffSec 101 Day 1
The day has arrived.
I have my email from the BackTrack team confirming access to the training material, videos and labs.
Downloaded all the files, checked the videos ran and the PDFs had content, then connected to the labs.
The VPM worked as advertised, so I could ping a system at the far end. Now, you have access to an XP machine, so using the command
rdesktop -u username – p password IP address of my XP machine
Bingo, straight in.
Work is picking up the bill for this course, so I have opted for the two months of labs. Well, it would be rude not too.
The plan, I say this in the loose possible fashion, is to spend an hour a day working through the material and the supplemental links. Whether this actually takes place is up to me, but being goaded in to putting in the effort to keep up with Ash and Damian should be a major help. Or hindrance.
As an aside, the folks over at Ethicalhacker.net have a piece up on one of them taking the course. Look forward to see how he finds it.
3 Comments
Sep 21, 2009 9:40 pm |
Hey Chris.
Are you allowed/expected to download the video tutorials so you can view them offline?
Just curious.
Sep 21, 2009 11:01 pm |
You get the PDF of the course note and a bunch of flash movies, which walk through the course notes, as part of a 650mb download. This allows you to make a backup copy and take it with you as off line study. So far I have three backups of the files
The flash movies move at a good pace and are pretty helpful. I’ll know more once I get through them all.
Sep 22, 2009 2:37 pm |
The SWF movies seem to have a bit more information in them than the lab manual does. Now to convert them to something I can stick on my ipod so I can at least listen to them at work/bus/gym.
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