I will be there. Lets see if we can meet over a few drinks

Raises a hand

Thanks a lot All, Its an honor to be recognised by SANS for our work.

But, it beens a fun 15 months, I enjoyed every bit of the experience, always learned a few things while teaching others.

E-Het is a great community and I can safely  blame it to put me on path to  Information security.

Kudos to Don and all others to keep it going. I am guilty of not contributing to it as much as I should but Its been a tough few months.

I still owe Don a few write-ups Hope to get them soon. Thanks again

Do I see a hint of Social Engineering in this thread ?

umm maybe its Monday and I am over reacting ....

VJ

I will be at ShmooCon if anyone wants to meetup

Hey Magnificent1,

I have been doing Facilitating for SANS for number of years now and will again be there as a Facilitator for Sec 503, Sec 577 and team lead for reregistration. IT is a great opportunity to meet and network and the conference managers are great bunch and fun to work with.

I am sure you will do a great job. I hope to see you and everyone.

VJ

HD and the crew has finally released the latest update to the ever so popular Metasploit framework

The quote from HD

"This release includes 446 exploits, 216 auxiliary modules, and hundreds of payloads, including an in-memory VNC service and the Meterpreter. In addition, the Windows payloads now support NX, DEP, IPv6, and the Windows 7 platform. More than 180 bugs were fixed since last year’s release of version 3.2, making this one of the more well-tested releases yet."

Also I would like to take this opportunity to give a big shout out to our very own CHRIS GATES (CG) and RYAN LINN (apollo), who are contributors to this awesome project

"This release of the Metasploit Framework was driven by numerous key contributors, including James Lee, Yoann Guillot, Steve Tornio, MC, Chris Gates, Alexander Kornbrust, Ramon Carvalle, Stephen Fewer, Ryan Linn, Lurene Grenier, Mike Kershaw, Patrick Webster, Max Moser, Efrain Torres, Alexander Sotirov, Ty Bodell, Joshua Drake, JR, Carlos Perez, Kris Katterjohn and many others."

Thank you guys and keep the good work and thanks to HD for keeping it active and free.

For more info

http://blog.metasploit.com/

VJ

Well I finally have a course, I will be there helping at the Registration and then facilitating Security 503 and Security 577.

Feel free to say hi

VJ

Anyone attending this? If you are there, feel free to say hi at the registration Desk

Anyone attending this ?

I might be there, but not sure what course

There are very few options to acheive GPEN via self study,

You can look at the course objectives, study them on your own and challenge the exam. This is a tough option but can be done.

http://www.giac.org/reginfo/challenge.php

You need to register with SANS for self study and they will ship you the materials and then register for the exam.

http://www.sans.org/selfstudy/

Or the best option would be to do SANS OnDemand or SANS @Home or VLive.

http://www.sans.org/vlive/

The exam is open book and therefore its best to have the latest SANS material.

Hope this helps.

VJ

You are very Welcome

As far as the industry recognizance goes, you would get more call if you have GPEN on your resume. Only the very 1337 in security industry know and recognize OSCP.

GPEN exam is a open book 150 multiple choice questions exam. More info can be found at

http://www.giac.org/exams/

OSCP is all practical 24 hour exam.

VJ

As I have done both,

I feel GPEN is very comprehensive Pen Test Course because it deals with more than juts popping boxes. It has almost a day coverage on Business and legal aspects of Pen Testing. Its very hands-on and has a lost of suttle tips and tricks for using the most common tools.

OSCP is very technical and hands on and requires a lot of prior knowledge on networking,  BoFs and theoretical knowledge on the concepts.

In my humble opinion OSCP is a great extension to GPEN.

P.S - Just a disclaimer that I am SANS Mentor.

VJ

Well Facebook can't be always bad.. it can help solve crime sometime

http://ridethelightning.senseient.com/2009/09/facebookaddicted-thief-leaves-his-identity-behind.html

enjoy

VJ