Don't think like that! Just need to step it up a gear and ... wait for it... Try Harder! You will be fine. Take a little rest and then approach it with fresh eyes.

Dude your killing it... nice work!

Nice post at the ISC today about the latest round of malware spreading emails reporting to come from American Express. As Johannes states we have all become a little use to a higher quality of spam emails now that when you see one that has such errors it’s almost funny!

Another good example is the ransom ware reporting to be from New Scotland Yard:

http://www.met.police.uk/pceu/cyber_crime.html

The grammar is just awful, so bad it’s funny!

Link to the ISC post:

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Another+round+of+Spot+the+Exploit+E-Mail+/14029

I'll pay that one....

Blackhole targeting Java vulnerability via fake Microsoft Services Agreement email phish:

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Blackhole+targeting+Java+vulnerability+via+fake+Microsoft+Services+Agreement+email+phish/14020

Oracle have released a patch....

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Oracle+Releases+Java+Security+Updates/14008

Do you accept cash bribes?  LOL....

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Try Harder™

Last two words of the course description :

http://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-training/penetration-testing-with-backtrack/

Sorry for the delay... photo was on phone, phone dies... blah blah blah....

Hey... it sounds like your boot sector is damaged or missing... I assume you are running Windows 7 ....

This site might help:

http://www.niharsworld.com/2009/11/09/solution-bootmgr-missing-press-ctrlaltdel-restart-error-boot-windows-7/

So do you  think they store the password in clear text... and the tech support people have access to view your password!

"A hint to your password is that it begins with s and ends with j"

Bit of a fail I think!

.....AND.....

Can anyone see the problem with the tech guys reply?

https://gist.github.com/3497955

 

Could be a flaw in IE... so so many ways....

Even if you are not running any other services (such as a web server, ftp server) you still have the built in Microsoft Services and applications running. Take for example MS08-067, this issue allowed an attacker to take advantage of the way that the Server service handles RPC requests. The attacker was able to execute code on the remote PC by exploiting this flaw.

This issue was patched a long time ago so shouldn’t be an issues anymore. To take advantage of a PC like the one you are talking about most of the time it would take a Zero Day or for  the machine to be missing a critical patch.

If you have a quick google you will find heaps of examples of how this is done.