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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
