Hi Dranex,

Welcome to EthicalHacker.net ! Just incase this helps, I've compiled a decent size list of video links that'll should bring you up to par on Subnetting.

Subnetting in 6 Easy Steps Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl5_J0UtINg

Subnetting in 6 Easy Steps Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1dtaQ1FEo

Subnetting in 6 Easy Steps Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F68dgzY652k

I've uploaded the bottom two that were taken directly from a college class I took called TCP/IP Protocols.

Subnetting Secrets - 26 Bit Mask Example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Ica4EfDU8

Subnetting Example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93F1Vbc2ya8

Congrats winners! With all of the seats being handed out, and people choosing between so many courses, I would love to hear some reviews of their training after all of you take it ( :

Has the player to be named been named yet by chance!?

MaXe - this is sad news. I was a member of your site. Though I haven't been active in the past few months, we spoke not long ago and I know you were getting new themes up for it and everything. Very sad to hear they would do this.

Fullt agree with turner and 3xban here. I hope you have backups. Intern0t had great material.

Hello Manikanth,

I'm going to second Hayabusa here in saying if you study enough during the 60 days of lab access, you should be able to get through it. 10 hours a day is a good amount of time to be committing. Your background is great having Networking, Basic Linux and Programming Experience. The theoretical knowledge is OK, you'll gain the practical knowledge in the lab. Knowing about the types of attacks out there versus knowing how to perform the types of attacks is a different scale. Your amount of time and dedication to the lab, and studying will make you prevail - just expect pain along the way.

Be sure to be open to purchasing any extra needed lab time! I personally had to go back and purchase an extra 10 or 15 after my initial 60 days in the lab just to make sure I felt up for the challenge. It's a great course and even if you don't walk out of it an OSCP, you'll certainly have a whole lot more knowledge than you had walking in.

Kris

Hello Eleven,

Luckily I haven't had to do this and don't have to with my current certifications but what I would do is keep up-to-date with my knowledge throughout the years. If were talking about SANS specifically, and you took one of their courses, I'd recommend going back through the material to refresh your knowledge, compare the course outline from how it was then and how it differs now & just study up on the topics that you haven't learned. What's great about SANS is that their exams are open book (from what I have heard), this can help out a ton!

If you do have the funds to take the class again I'm sure that'd help out a ton but it's all about study, study, study!

Kris

This is amazing. It's great to see SecurityTube having success in their SWSE course and rolling out a new course. I love the whole ability to VPN to have a practical lab environment, and practical certification examination right in front of you at your disposal. With affordable pricing, and the promising of course lifetime updates guaranteed, SecurityTube definitely seems to be making a name for itself in regards to training. It's already a great established security community.

I'd love to hear some reviews on the SWSE experience, and would love to take this course from them in the future. I would enroll immediately but I am going to be busy in SEC504 very soon here

Kris

Hello rance,

There's a couple steps to it. First you have to extract the contents from the jar file to see the .class files, then run the .class files through a decompiler to see the Java Code.

For Step 1 this link will help:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/jar/unpack.html

For Step 2 this link will help:
http://java.decompiler.free.fr/?q=jdgui

I've utilized Java Decompiler in the past and it's worked great.

Kris

I haven't seen him recently but I've received e-mails from him regarding offers on receiving a, 'Hacking Magazine' subscription. If I recall correctly, it usually takes them awhile to grade the exam. I think it was either 10-14 days from when after it has been submitted to receive an answer back.

Kris

The guy over at Skull Security has gotten together some powerful lists. Feel free to check them out:

http://www.skullsecurity.org/wiki/index.php/Passwords

This offer has been available for a few months. I'm not too sure when they're going to cut it. What's great about it is it can be also used if you want to buy exam vouchers. I used it to purchase 2 Practice and 1 Proctored Test for GPEN, it dropped the price down to about $749 if I recall correctly. Also do not forget about their 25% off deal until 10/26 below (Assuming you can pay early):

http://www.sans.org/online-security-training/specials.php

This is an excellent deal, I'm definitely considering it. I purchased the GPEN exam, it came with 2 Practice Tests, and a Proctored. I've used up my 2 practice tests, making progress on the second one but I'm not feeling confident in regards to the laws and a couple other areas. I am kind of thinking, maybe I should do the OnDemand 504 class - which I believe is purely based online and you can go through the content on your own time? Use the knowledge gathered in that class to obtain the GCIH, and it along with the OSCP course should put me a solid enough position to be able to pass the GPEN exam. What are your thoughts?

p.s - Thanks for the link!

Kris

H1t M0nk3y - Superior response and it makes complete sense. Comparing the rate with how much I was bidding for my services seems like I'm 'low balling' myself here. Definitely open to any other responses if any one has anything else to contribute - although you nailed it dead-on monkey.

Thanks all of you!

Kris

Hello!

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, I believe at an Enterprise Level penetration testing and contracts are paid a flat rate? To some of the members who pen test in the corporate world, do these tests typically range from x to x depending on what needs to be done, or do various companies contract out penetration testers at a solid hourly rate?

I'm in a situation where I am partaking on a few freelancing websites and there's folks who want this type of work done and have never thought, 'If I had to charge an hourly rate to do this type of work, how much should I charge?'. I saw one contractors profile who has it rate set at $132 an hour, but he's located in the US. Of course I am sure it varies across the board depending on what country your located in. My main question basically is, how much do you think is a minimal hourly rate to set for this type of work? I'm sure based on your experience levels and years in the field it must vary, but if anyone could help, I'm all ears!

Thanks,

Kris

Thanks on the grats guys! I received an e-mail just now with some clarification, they stated the following:


Just wanted to keep everyone up-to-date. When this updates in a couple months, I bet it's going to be even better and modern. Vivek's WLan Security Primer is superb material. I've watched a couple videos from the series.

Kris

@Lorddicranius - That's a good observation. I just re-checked my lab guide and it says v2. I'm pretty sure I have v2 of the course, it's utilizing BackTrack 3, and I think the v1 of the course was using BackTrack 1 or 2. If WiFu v3.0 came out, I'd imagine the material would be on BT4 or even BT5. I'm going to contact them right now and ask!

P.s - Received a quick response from the challenges department regarding my OSWP exam with my official results and I past! (wooh!)

Kris