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!

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!

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

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

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

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!

Update: New Intro

The New Video Intro:

Okay, Okay, so the new intro really didn't turn out to be a 3 minute or less intro like I planned, however it came out pretty awesome as a Trailer of things to come in the next few videos. It's basically me beating up some boxes on the LAN :-) Video link to follow post upload!

I do still think that the very beginning of the Trailer video has potential to be good footage for an intro to new videos. I just need to edit the intro start song to be 30 seconds but still sound good! I think I can, I think I can!

Rendering video now, and uploading soon!

It's Monday!

Hey Guys,

Hope you enjoyed your weekend. I apologize for making a post so late in the day, but, well, it's Manic Monday here!

The day is un-winding now. I am hoping to get the new intro done today/tonight. Then I want to move onto getting my virtual lab finished so we can resume Hacking the machines in there on the videos. I am going to redo the lab, because I want to further segment it, and put a Virtual Router/Firewall in place to simulate real world excersizes on how to perform firewall evasion.

I will also do a video on setting up your own Virtual Lab as has been requested by one of our members!

I am also thinking of creating a forum where we can ask questions, get help, etc. This idea I am not sure about quite yet.

Enough out of me! Back to work! :-)

EDIT:

I think what we are going to do is save the Virtual Firewall for the Advanced Video Tutorials.

I really want to get into showing you guys some examples of hacking machines. Then we will do a Virtual Lab setup, and then I will re-do the lab and setup the virtual firewall, fire it up on a Public IP, and show advanced techniques in terms of firewall evasion, etc.  

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!

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!

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!

New Video: Setting up and Configuring Metasploit + Armitage and More!

New Video! First Look at Metasploit + Armitage!

Guys! It's finally done! The video on Setting up, Configuring and using Metasploit + Armitage, a look at nmap and zenmap. Also, discussion about up and coming videos!