The only way to hack into myspace these days is to include your real name, phone number and address in the code, everyone knows that.

kids these days...

quite right, thank you all for the suggestions. I'm not sure what they did, but the internet has worked much better recently.

So at this point, i'm feeling pretty good about everything, i've written a total of 3 scripts, one for ping scanning, one for port scanning (though im sure this one will require some manual interaction), and one for banner grabbing using ncat. I cant wait to practice using ncat, I hope to practice some proxying and SSL tunneling maybe?

It is certainly possible that the reviewer was referring to an older version of the books, I remember these were released back in 2009 or around there if i'm not mistaken. I would have been interested in reviewing a copy of the ENSA books, but these things are nearly impossible to find offline. It would be nice if ECC would let us review them...

I read the relevant portion of the man page as suggested, and that helped me understand it. The PHP and sys.argv stuff is still out of reach for the moment.

EDIT: ok, so i changed the script, and executed it, it worked!

I think I know what MaXe is saying here, instead of the arguments being defined explicitly in the script, I can specify them in my command string and have for instance:


./pingscan.sh 192.168.1.0/24 pingscan

correct?

If i'm not mistaken, you are talking about variables here right?

like this?

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/varsubn.html

Just make sure you read the reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/Network-Defense-Fundamentals-Protocols-EC-Council/product-reviews/1435483553/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

I dont think im at that level yet, i'll get right on it. *hides*

ISI is not to my knowledge, an ATC, but that shouldnt stop you from taking their training.

lol I was like "localhost... network !"

but good catch on the namp.... luckily I rewrote that to post it, the orginal script spells it correctly.

Well I just wrote my first shell script today and I wanted to share this experience with you all. Its an amazing feeling, jr. programming 101 or something to that effect. I figured i'd share this easy script with you guys, any comments, suggestions or improvements are appreciated and desired.

I used this as my primary guide, I am still going through it, but that and some youtube videos so far gave me what I needed to build this script.


fairly simple, but useful I hope in future studies... >  One thing I wanted to do, not sure if it's possible, but originally, I wanted "scanning..." or something to that effect to be displayed while the command was running, and then "scan complete" at the end. Can that be done without adding too much complexity?

Also, many of the examples I saw used quotation marks around statements that were to be echoed. Based on what I found, quotes are used for variables or something to that effect, can someone explain them to me, and when they should/should not be used?

wow, what a prize! Thanks to the guys over at Career Academy.

How about the blatant symantec advertising? And that bit about free anti-virus... But a good show overall.

Thanks to Don and the EH network, love all you guys, as you can imagine, this is a huge honor for me to have the opportunity to take this class, the OSCP has always been a dream that was a few years out of reach. I never imagined that I would have this opportunity. So, I am preparing for the abuse, I'll spend the next few days getting back in linux, learning bash scripting *cowers in fear*, and whatever else might give me an edge.