Showing posts with label Learn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learn. Show all posts

Saturday, October 8, 2016

Pentester University is now LIVE

Hey Guys,

It's official, The school is now accepting open enrollments! Visit Pentester University

Enroll today, and get started on your future! A new class will be automatically released every 7 days!

I'm so excited to see this dream of mine finally come to fruition! I welcome any and all feedback!


Sunday, August 28, 2016

PentesterUniversity Updates!

Hey Everyone,

So I wanted to give everyone an update on our online school dubbed "PentesterUniversity" ™, which you can see HERE. I'm so excited! That being said, I've been working on creating course content and building my new Foldable desk area. I wanted to share some pictures with everyone so you can see what the work area looks like right now.

Here is the desk folded down for work. You can see my laptop, and of course my brand new Blue Yeti microphone with windscreen! Yes, I know the laptop is missing a mouse button lol.

A better shot from the distance. I plan to add storage hooks above the desk for my laptop, and a pocket for my charger, wires, etc. Also, the microphone will be going on a foldable mic stand that will be attached to the wall on the right.

Underneath. I used a 1x6 header that I screwed to the studs in the wall. Then a piano hinge for the hinging, and I custom made legs that went on foldable locking leg brackets I got from Amazon. The desk material is 3/4 Mellamine.

Here is the desk with the legs folded in, and the desk folded down. Frees up tons of floor space this way.


So, I'm finally going to have a comfortable space to work from, so I can create more awesome content for the school.

Now, the big question is; How much is the school going to cost? Here's what I am thinking, and please, I welcome your feedback. I'm going to do two pricing models that I think will suit most users.

We are going to have a lot of courses. Network Security Beginner-Advanced, Linux classes, Networking Classes, Web Pentest classes, WiFi Pentest classes, etc.


Monthly Subscription:

For everyone who signs up for a free registration from now until I release the first class will only pay $49.99 per month, and after release anyone who signs up will pay $59.99 per month. You can take as many classes as you want, and take as long as you want to complete them.

Per Class:

Each class will vary in a flat fee price from $99-$299+. You will be able to study at your own pace, and take as long as you need to complete it. Price stays the same.

Also, we are going to have quizzes, private student forums where you can contact me and others directly, email support with me, and much more! I wanted to be fair on the pricing because I want to be able to teach anyone, no matter their budgets. This is a rapidly growing industry, and we are in very high demand, which means we command a very high salary for our skill.

So, now that I'm all set up, please feel free to send me any feedback in the comments section below and of course sign up for an account at PentesterUniversity ™  so you can get that special discount for pre-registration!

-AfterBurn
 

Friday, August 12, 2016

Hard Drive Crash

Hey Everyone,

So if you've been following along on Twitter, you'd have had a good laugh at my expense today. Last night the HDD crashed on the trusty laptop.

I tried everything, fsck, etc. Nothing. Bad sectors, probably physical damage! But, I finally had enough of these physical hard drives always eventually breaking, and finally broke down and bought a SSD for the laptop. This Computer flys now!

So, that being said, I had to re-download Kali Linux, and being that my main laptop just died, and no external CD/DVD writers around for the tablets/smart phones, I broke out a very old, highly abused windows XP laptop I found laying around. It only had a CD burner, but I wanted the full ISO of Kali. So, that won't fit on a CD.

Plan B: I had to download the large ISO over WiFi. No big deal, but now I remember why I tossed that WinXP Laptop into the back of the closet. The wifi card randomly kills the signal, and of course the ancient hardware. So imagine downloading 2.8GB of an iso, over a spotty wifi and only 512MB Ram!

Finally got it downloaded, and made a bootable USB jump drive, then installed to this Laptop from that!

Happy Friday

:-)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The Stickers Are In!!



Hey Guys,

If you guys have been following the blog and twitter, you would have saw that I created some very Unique Stickers for you to put on your tablets, laptops, cars, etc. Well they are finally in, and I shipped the first batch to those who pre-ordered them on the blog last week!

The rest are now in my physical possession, and I will ship them out immediately upon payment! So get yours HERE, and share it with your like minded friends, colleagues, or who ever!

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Updates

Hey Guys,

I know I haven't made a video in a couple of weeks. I lost a very close family member about 1.5 weeks ago, and it crushed me. But as time is passing, I'm starting to get back to normal.

Prior to that happening, I decided that I was very fed up at my job, and promptly quit. I was hoping to quit anyway to focus more on this project, but perhaps I should have planned better lol. So now, this project, it's growth etc is solely dependent upon donations, to which every single one I appreciate.

I have a few projects in the works, and hopefully able to get at least one of them off the ground. One of which is our very own Online School. I'm very excited about that!

Yesterday I finally released my 1.2 Million Unique Word password list. You can find that HERE if you missed it. 

I also appreciate the feedback, and we are growing tremendously, 20,300 Youtube subscribers -- I can't even believe it, so awesome!

Well I won't take up any more of your time, and I appreciate everyone and everything with this project. Enjoy your day and thanks for reading! 


Stay Tuned,

AfterBurn

Saturday, September 5, 2015

New Video: Installing and Configuring DVWA - Hacking websites

Hey Guys,

New Video up and running! Showing how to install and configure DVWA (Damn Vulnerable Web Application) for our upcoming videos on Web Pentesting / Website Hacking. Check it out and let me know what you think!

-AfterBurn


Wednesday, September 2, 2015

We're Back! New Script

Hey Guys,

So, like I mentioned in my latest video, I am indeed back, and I brought presents! I Created a basic script to help in being able to quick launch msfconsole (Metasploit) without having to remember all of the commands and services that are needed each and every time you go to use the framework. Check out our downloads page for a direct link to our sourceforge page.

Please leave me some feed back here or on twitter @LearnNetSec

Enjoy!

-AfterBurn

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

zscaler - Fake it till you make it?

So on the twitter sphere today, I saw a post about this website; http://securitypreview.zscaler.com/ which is supposed to be some "in the cloud" network security company, I guess? And their free check up script is supposed to do an "Automated Audit" on your system, via the web browser. I know right, silly to even type this, but that's the claim.

Well apparently some of us professionals in the know tried it out. And no matter your OS, Device, Browser, etc, we noticed that every single time on ANYTHING, this scan would tell you that you are Vulnerable to the "zbot Virus", which oddly enough, their company name also starts with a "z" as in "ZScaler" Twitter @zscaler. Coincidence? I think not. Scareware, I think yes.

Just imagine for a second, if you will, some overly zealous CEO of some small-medium corporation coming across this advertisement. He figures, sure, why not, I'll run a free scan! I'll show those over priced infosec companies, HA!

He then sees he's vulnerable to some erroneous "zbot" virus. "OH NO!" he exclaims, and promptly follows the companies call to action to sign up for their "service". Sigh.. we've all been saying this for years, this was bound to happen. but what Mr CEO Doesn't realize -- and it's our jobs to educate them on this -- is that Network Security auditing and/or Penetration Testing involves (should always) thinking outside the box. There is absolutely no "canned" or out of the box magic protection software/technology. It's not possible, and everyone who thinks that is just another foolish sheep.

Anyway, I know exactly nothing else about the above mentioned company, however, I do know that what they are doing is an underhanded, shady practice no different from any other traditional scareware tactics.

By the way, as I mentioned, it doesnt matter the platform you're on, they tell you that you are vulnerable to the zbot virus. I googled the zbot virus, and the only systems it can infect is

Trojan
Systems Affected:
Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Notice it doesn't say anything about Linux/Unix or android, mac, etc. Yet on all of those devices, it said I was vulnerable.

Reference

-AfterBurn

Monday, August 24, 2015

Updated 8-24-15

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to post an update as to what I am currently up to. First, I see Kali Linux 2.0 is out and that's exciting! I went ahead and ordered a new (to me) laptop, and that should be to me by the 29th. First thing will be installing Kali Linux 2.0. In reading the docs for Kali 2.0, I realized that there are some scripts I can write to certainly save some time, and make stuff easier for the Kali Community, to which I will do as soon as I install it. So keep an eye out for that.

I am searching through my old backups looking for data from the www.learnnetsec.com website. UGH, it may not be as easy as I thought to get the site back and going. But, that said, I want to make it bigger, better, more content, more hacker challenges, forums, learning portals, etc. So until then, this site is serving as the backup. Please subscribe to it. For now, the domain www.learnnetsec.com is forwarded to this one, until I get this resolved. 

I am very active on twitter again, so check me out there @LearnNetSec 

I am very excited to be back and at it again guys, honestly. I have found new software to edit videos on Linux, and of course its open source! So good bye windows! Once and for all! 

Stay Tuned, 

- AfterBurn

Sunday, August 9, 2015

Triumphant Return

Hey Guys!

I hope everyone is well. It's been awhile since I put any content out. I apologize. But, certainly I'm looking to get things back on track within the next few weeks. It's going to take some time to get back up and running. Unfortunately, due to Having to move, I no longer have all of my equipment up and running, and at this time, no space to have my full lab back up. But, I'll still be making videos soon. Ordering a new laptop soon.

I still do my best to answer questions via YouTube, and I'm so very grateful for our channels growth, 17,950 SUBSCRIBERS! That's awesome!

After the new laptop is purchased, I will do my best to get the old website back up and going as well.

Truthfully, I'm very excited to get this project going again. So for the time being, this will be the current website for news, tips, tricks, etc.

Oh, also, Facebook flagged me for using a fake name and locked my account, so the Facebook page for netsecnow is locked. I'm working on that too, but we will probably be forced to open something else up.

Stay tuned,

AfterBurn

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Updates: New Stuff!

Hey Guys,

So, I have decided to bite the bullet and buy a real Domain Name! www.LearnNetSec.com  - was purchased today with some help from our ad's on the site and on youtube. This site here @blogspot will remain in use as we make a transition to the dedicated domain. I decided to do the dedicated domain so I can have more control over the overall website and blog content. I may also create a forum there for you guys to hang out, discuss, etc. I'd also like to get an IRC channel going but that is a lot of management (had one some years ago).

The second thing that is new, is that I finally joined us to Twitter today! I think twitter is a better avenue to give you guys updates than having to not only post it here, then facebook, and youtube. I have twitter linked with Youtube, so when new videos are uploaded I can quickly share them to twitter as well. So head on over to our Twitter Account HERE  and follow us for news, and updates there as well as the blog here.

I am also proud to announce that we have reached 100 subscribers to Youtube! Saturday the 15th will mark the first 30 day mark since this project was created. We have 8 videos on Youtube, so on the average that is 2 new videos a week! It's hard work, but It's totally worth it if you guys enjoy them and learn from the series. And by the looks of things, it seems you guys do!

So, a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed to growing this project with me. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be here at all!

Here's to the future! You guys Rock!

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

What's Up Next?

Hey Guys,

As I am sure most of you have already seen, I uploaded what was intended to be a new Video Intro last night that turned out to be more of a Trailer of what is to come in the next few videos. That Video is HERE in case you missed it.

We will be discussing the "Meat and Potatoes" of actually Hacking. Finally! But, it's way to much information to stuff in one video, even my infamous 45+ minute videos. We will start with an overview of what we are going to learn via Presentation slides and explaining each and every topic. Then we will move on to actually Hacking the Network. Explaining what to use, how, why, where, and when in great detail, as always. This is why it must be a multi-part video. We have a lot to cover!

Moving forward from that, we are going to go into Advanced Techniques, such as firewall/IDS/IPS evasion tactics, Packet Analysis, Reporting, Etc.

I will also be making a few videos in the interim, like, Building a real Virtual Lab using ProxMox (Free), Different types of attacks, like MITM, etc.

So Stay Tuned Guys! It's about to get really interesting!

New Trailer Uploaded!

Just a small taste of things to come in future Videos!




Sunday, June 9, 2013

New Video Intro

Hey Guys,

I am working on a new Intro to our videos. I find as I am becoming better with Video Editing, that the default intro is kinda boring. I am hoping that tomorrow I can get Win2k3 server installed on the VM server. Also, I need to reinstall win7 because somehow it decided to BSOD with the network config, Not even sure why, but that is MSFT windows for you. All of my UNIX/Linux VM's are chugging right along without a hitch. This is why I love linux!

Anyways it's Sunday and I am going to take the day to relax, it was a rough week! Of course though, my brain never shuts off, so I will be doing some reading on Techie stuff, etc LOL.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend. I will see you all tomorrow, and hopefully I can respond to any questions/emails in a timely fashion for the rest of today.

Also, again, Thanks for the feedback, and questions/suggestions you guys have provided so far! It really goes a long way for me to see people interacting and even helping each other on the comments! Our youtube channel now has 67 Subscribers so far! Not bad for under a month of the sites and videos being active (started this on May 15th). I have you guys to Thank for the fast growth of this project, so Thank You!

As always keep sharing our pages, videos, blog, etc. Thanks!

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Happy Saturday!

Hey Guys,

I hope you are enjoying your weekend so far! On Monday I am going to move forward with getting the rest of the Virtual Machines created and configured. I Have ran into a few snags, and that is to be expected since I have never used ProxMox to host VM's before. Since I am lacking the proper hardware to make windows play nicely in ProxMox, it's a bit challenging. I will however press on.

In the meantime, keep reading, and learning.

Do you guys have any suggestions for future videos? Let me know!

And as always Thank You for your feedback, and support! Keep sharing the videos, and our YouTube, facebook, and blog pages!

Friday, June 7, 2013

Good Morning Good People!

I am going to be out in the field today. I will do my very best to answer any questions you guys may have from my phone.

I hope you guys enjoyed the latest video on ToR and Proxy chains I did yesterday. Please keep spreading the word, Thumbs up the videos, share them, and our facebook page. Thank You!

Enjoy your day!

Thursday, June 6, 2013

New Video: Installing, and Configuring ToR Proxy with Proxychains + Exmaples

New Video: Installing, and Configuring ToR Proxy with Proxychains + Exmaples



Enjoy!

The Next Video

Hey Guys! - New Video Coming! 


The next video I am going to do is going to cover using ToR with Proxychains to tunnel your connections for applications over a proxy, without leaking your DNS!

The end of the week is usually crazy for me. I hope to have this done by Monday the latest!

Also, I have been really impressed with how fast this NetSecNow concept is taking off and growing! You guys are all awesome! Thank you very much for helping us grow and succeed! Please, keep spreading the word, sharing the videos, blog, facebook with your friends and co-workers, it helps a lot! I appreciate all feedback, good, bad, or otherwise! So Thank You for that!

And as always, Stay Tuned!

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Update: Video

I put together a video looking at an intro to setting up and configuring Metasploit + Armitage, as it will be needed for our next demonstration video. Also a quick look at nmap and zenmap! It's rendering now (takes about an hour or so) and once it's uploaded to Youtube, I will make a new post about it!

Stay Tuned!

Round 3!

Good Morning,

Okay, so I am going to try this for the 3rd time! I am turning off the ringers on all of the office phones, cell phone, etc.

The video I want to produce today will be about the different phases of Network Security from a Professionals point of view.

I have most of the labs VM machines going, except win2k, as my old install media is messed up and will not work :(. Which is ok, because most of what we will be going over will apply to any machine that is windows based. I am going to fire in a few Linux based machines also, just to give us some more variety.

There is one thing to keep in mind guys; No audit is always successful, and you may not find anything worthwhile. Nothing is 100% guaranteed to succeed!

The video I may wind up producing before we get into this process may very well be setting up Metasploit Framework + Armitage. The only thing holding me back is that I have already went ahead and registered my community version of Metasploit, so I could get the most important updates for vulns. I need to find a way to reverse that so I can show you guys how to do this from scratch!

After that quick video, we will now have most of our more commonly used tools that need configuring setup, so we can dive into the meaty stuff, like actually doing some pentests on the lab! - Finally!

Operation: Get things in order - engaged!