Archive for the ‘Study’ category

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Netsh commands

July 11, 2010

  This is nothing new or exciting, I just keep forget the syntax so I’m leaving here to make it much easier to find/remember. Interface Configuration Interface named Local Area Connection with the static IP address 192.168.66.100, the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, and a default gateway of 192.168.66.1: netsh interface ip set address name=”Local Area [...]

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From SANS 709: brute-forcing Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) on Linux

June 22, 2010

In my other rush to get up to speed for SANS 709 Developing Exploits for Penetration Testers and Security Researchers I’m looking for any material that will easy that learning curve. Steve Sims has just posted up two YouTube videos on brute-forcing Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) on Linux straight out of the 709 courseware. [...]

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Study, more art than science

June 19, 2010

The folks on Twitter has provided a couple of quite though provoking links on the subject of study Jason Haddix linked this http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/4/19/7-tips-for-successful-self-learning.html The folks at Cisco Security linked this: http://etherealmind.com/why-the-ccie-program-is-more-useful-than-the-certification-itself/ I like to think each of us has to find our own way to study, whether it be driven by passion, need or simple [...]

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GSE Exam in SANS Network Security 2010

June 15, 2010

Been a busy few months in the real world with work, life and everything else. Since passing the GSE written exam, I’ve been building up a lab, practical practice examples and a stock of reading reference materials. I’ll blab on about the books and what they are at some later point. An interesting aside, some of [...]

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Things that know PING, Packet Decode

May 1, 2010

The last few weeks have been all about the packets, it seems. We’ve found and fixed a couple of wacky problems at work by looking at packet captures, Netmon 3.4 beta is out, I’ve devoured Laura Chappell’s new wireshark book, started playing with scapy, read the new Honeynet challenges and now I discover my 502 [...]