Early Impressions of the attack-secure.com Samurai Skills Course
I’ve been in the process of studying for my GCIH cert test and have had a feeling that I could benefit from some hands on experience testing some of the tools and tactics covered in the SANS SEC 504...
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Samurai Skills Update #2
I’ve now had a few days to ‘play’ with the Samurai Skills course online hacking lab and I wanted to post some early thoughts. I’ve found the labs both awesome and frustrating. Awesome because it’s nice...
View ArticleGCIH Passed
I’m a few days late in posting this but last Monday I passed my GCIH exam with a 94. SANS advisory board here I come!!! I watched the course in the On Demand format taught by Ed Skoudis and attended...
View ArticleSamurai Skills Update #4
Between work, the holiday and other demands on my time (I’ve got another cert test coming up this week) I haven’t had a ton of time to play around in the attack-secure student labs but I wanted to give...
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Samurai Skills Update #5
While I still haven’t been able to devout nearly as much time as I would like to play in the student labs I still wanted to post another update on how the Samurai Skills course is going for me. I’ve...
View ArticleTelling sqlmap to Try Harder
When I first started learning about penetration testing sqlmap quickly became one of my favorite tools. For those who haven’t used it, sqlmap is a command line tool which automates the detection and...
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Samurai Skills Update #6 – Review
After popping shell on almost every box in the Attack-Secure student lab I finally got shell on the computer which held the key.txt file which had the hash I needed to earn my Attack-Secure Penetration...
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Thoughts on the SANS 560 at Cybercon
woo hoo!!! As some of you know I’ve been on a SANS binge over the past 18 months at a pace that seemed on the brink of unsustainable at times. Some of the classes like the FOR 408 and FOR 585 were...
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Bash Script to Help With base64 and echo File Transfers
Recently I had remote access to a Linux terminal with an extremely limited command set and I wanted to place a full featured web shell on the box. My usual methods of netcat and wget weren’t available...
View ArticleA Script to Help Automate Windows Enumeration for Privilege Escalation
Often when I want to learn a skill, I’ll think up a project for myself that forces me to improve that skill. Recently I wanted to improve my Windows post exploitation and privilege escalation so I...
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