Hi kaizo,

Welcome to EH-Net. Aside from having C knowledge, what other skills do you have? Before getting too far into ethical hacking, you need to have a solid foundation of networking and security topics. Without knowing your background, it makes it a lot harder to point you in the right direction. Ex. I don't want to recommend that you pick up a Network+ book if you've got 5 years of network administration experience behind you. Give us a little more of a background about yourself and you'll surely get some responses.

Bill

I think I've seen parts of this, but never the whole thing. Will have to check it out this weekend sometime. Thanks for the link

Hi JD, and welcome to the community. Being in high school, you've got a lot of time to figure out what direction you'd like to go in (heh, some of us still aren't sure )

Nothing wrong with starting early and getting a jumpstart on things though. I'm sure you'll find the members here to be very helpful as you research, study, and learn.

Bill

Just looking at the JS code you've supplied, it doesn't appear to be sending data to anyone (except maybe the 'CommMembers.aspx' file). It appears that it's adding a moderator of a specific account ID.

You can go delete your temporary files/cookies if you're that paranoid about it.

I could also be mis-understanding your question, please clarify if that's the case.

Thank you for pointing this out. I'm sure Don will be looking into the fix for this ASAP.

Good presentation, I enjoyed it. I'll be checking out the paper as Chris suggested shortly

Exam Info

Official Review Guide (good for v5)

CEH Prep Guide (new book, looks good)

That's hard to say without knowing what your interests are. You could be a network professional with no certifications, vendor neutral certifications, or vendor specific certifications. It depends on what you want to learn.

I actually DVR'ed the episodes and just watched them last night. I thought they were definitely pretty interesting. It wasn't as technical as I was expecting it to be, but the episodes were both pretty good.

I did laugh a little at the first episode when the head guy (anyone ever heard of him, or the group, before?) came out and said "we are the best," or something close to that. They definitely seem pretty good at what they do though, no doubt about that.

I'm about to go search around for one of those card copiers

Where are you located at? Are you looking for something local or are you willing to travel?

The LPT is a penetration testing certification (sort of) from EC-Council. They do not refer to it as a certification, but as a 'license.'

When you earn your LPT, you have access to proprietary EC-Council documents. This includes all the paperwork that would be involved in a penetration test, all the customer documents and such. You also receive a copy of their software to help automate the process. It allows you to add all your tools into one central location, run them from there, and then put the output back into it. It will then generate your report documentation.

As for projects and assignments, once you have earned your LPT you can apply to be a member of the EC-Council Tiger Team. I'm not too familiar with it, but from my understanding when a business contacts EC-Council about having a penetration test, they refer them to either a local member of the Tiger Team or to the Tiger Team as a whole.

Hopefully that helps get you started. I'd imagine that if you sent an email to 'info@eccouncil.org' you may get some more information.

Bill

No longer politically correct, lol

Happy Holidays everyone!

Cool! Sounds like it should be at least a little interesting. I'll definitely have a look at it. Thanks for the info!

I've been using EnGarde for my network firewall at home for over a year and have had no problems with it.

The webtool sometimes will hang when logging in (not sure why), but other than that I have no complaints.

Chris: you still have to get a username/pass to get the updates, but you no longer have to go to the website and then input it into the tool. The first time you login to the webtool, it prompts you to click a 'GDSN Configuration' (or similar) button that will automatically create/add the user/pass for you. You then receive an email with that information for your records. A little less than desirable, but still better.

Hi Stu and welcome again to EH-Net

As always, it's good to see new members joining the community. I'm sure you'll find plenty of resources here to help you in studying for both Security+ and CEH. Feel free to ask any questions as you study; the members here are always open to providing help and guidance.

Best of luck for your studies.