Re: Pen test courses

There are a lot of good (or acceptable) penetration testing training courses around and I'm sure that by the time this mail reaches the server others will have allready commented something about them.

Still I would recommend that you build your own training lab (If you could spend a hub and a few old machines with different O.S. that might suffice, for a start...).

In most (if not all) training courses that I'm aware of, you end up with machines and software that rea ready to go... all has been tested before and if something fails it is usually because the teachers didn't do their job very well, but you won't learn how to deal with tunning code yourself there.

Most of the time exploits that you intend to run after just downloading them from the Internet won't compile or won't work the first time, and there is a lot to learn by reading and fixing the code yourself (I've seen both mastepieces of code and really horrible programming abortions).

Also, I believe this is the way to go if you start writing your own tools and exploits to grow your pentest kit.

My .2 cents...

Omar Herrera

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