Archive for the ‘Study’ category

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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 areĀ 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 [...]

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Passed the GSE written exam

March 20, 2010

Pretty pleased with myself after passing SANS’ GSE written exam. The exam was very fair and tested knowledge and skills from all three courses. Had a few sweaty palm moments and a couple of “Doh!” when picking the wrong answer. Now for the hard work and study to get ready for the two day practical. [...]

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METASPLOIT UNLEASHED – MASTERING THE FRAMEWORK

October 7, 2009

Stumbled over this while working on my offensive security course work. The study took a “short break” while I thumbed through the pages. So far, it looks excellent and for a great cause too. METASPLOIT UNLEASHED – MASTERING THE FRAMEWORK This free information security training is brought to you in a community effort to promote [...]

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Kicking off – OffSec 101 Day 1

September 20, 2009

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, [...]