Hi Jamie!

Looking at what the Nidan level from HackingDojo teaches offers. I would say you would be prepped for the OSCP course and the eCPPT course. The Metasploit Course from SecurityTube looks very promising! Walking out of it and being well rounded in Metasploit will be a huge plus in PWB - especially since there's tons of machines sitting out there in OffSec's VPN Labs that could be popped with it. I think this is where SMFE and PWB will compare is by having accompany VPN labs to practice your skills in, but PWB takes it a lot further than just using Metasploit!

The eLearnSecurity course is fun also. The certification exam is also hands on and focuses on a Web App Pen-test. Seen is absolutely right, EH members are entitled to a 5% discount which can be redeemed here.

Having taken both courses and leaving a review on both, I'm hoping they'll help you out, check out the threads below:
eCPPT Certified!
PWB v3 Review

Either route you go your going to learn a ton. Both are great courses and although around $600 is your budget, if you do decide on PWB I would highly recommend purchasing at least 60 days of lab access.

At long last, our highly rated Wireless Attacks Course (Wi-Fu) has been updated to version 3! This is a major revision of the course with a complete restructure and redesign of the course content with a far broader range of attack techniques.

The Wi-Fu course is comprised of course videos that are 3.5 hours in length along with an accompanying 380-page lab guide.

Beginning with a solid introduction to wireless networking theory, you will be plunged directly into attacking wireless networks of varying configurations.

Going far beyond cracking WEP enabled networks, this new version of Wi-Fu has much greater coverage of attacks against WPA networks using the Aircrack-ng suite, Pyrit, and more. Also added are various rogue access point attacks to help you take your wireless penetration testing beyond simply cracking network keys.

If you are looking to learn how to attack wireless networks, or want to take your skills beyond the basics, this new revision of Wi-Fu will be available with a start date of 22 Dec 2011 but you can sign up now and be among the first to have this great new version of Wi-Fu.

To see the many topics covered in the new course, we have the Wi-Fu Syllabus available for your perusal. We have also updated our recommended hardware for the new revision of the course and have added a new Wi-Fu Demo video!

The course fee for Wi-Fu is $450 USD and includes our highly-regarded hands-on certification exam leading to the coveted OSWP certification. Our former Wi-Fu students wishing to upgrade to this new version of the course can do so for the fee of $100 USD.

Source:
http://www.offensive-security.com/offsec/offensive-security-wireless-attacks-updated/

Hi desperateX,

Welcome to EthicalHacker.net! Sounds like your in a tight bind. While it's great you took the time to sign up, you've acknowledged the rules yourself and know were all for ethical work here. I agree with SephStorm on this. The information you obtain would probably get dismissed, especially if illegal obtained.

Gaining access to someone's e-mail is illegal in most countries that I know of. You won't be receiving help on this topic from anyone. This isn't a blackhat forum.

Hi psimoes79,

Welcome to EthicalHacker.net! I think the OSCP would be the best bang for your buck in all honesty, but it could come off extremely hard depending on your skills relating to pen-testing. I've heard CISSP is more of a management cert, but I'm guessing with 7 years and your Bachelor's under your belt, you've at least toyed with Penetration Testing for awhile. Having taken the course myself, I found it challenging, and I learned a ton. If you want to get some of my background on it before going in, I wrote a review
here which may come in handy.

I've also taken the Pro course at eLearnSecurity at this is a great course also. The certification exam and course as a whole is hands-on, and writing a detailed report is 50% of the examination I believe. What I noticed that I liked more in OSCP over the eCPPT course is that we as an Off-Sec student your handed a lab with over 50 machines with pre-configured vulnerabilities to break into and test your skills. At the time I was going through eCPPT (last year around September or October) this wasn't available. The labs were more based around pulling material down from the course and practicing on your own machine. Both are great courses and if your newer to penetration testing I would say go with eCPPT. If you've been dabbling awhile and like pain, go for OSCP. This is all just from my experience! I would also just like to add in that I believe eLearnSecurity accepts payments, so if your budget is tight, this could be a great route. eLearnSecurity also still appears to have their 5% off the course for EH-NET members which can be redeemed here.

I've heard CPT is a fun course. I actually think we have a couple members who have their CPT certifications that may be able to add on their input to help out. Incase they don't respond, here's a CPT review link below:
http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/368/2/

In regards to CEH and CPTE, I know CEH is more recognized in the industry but I also hear you can walk out of the course certified as a CEH, and not know how to penetrate systems. There are tons of CEHs on this board who could lend their opinions on the course. I asked Mile2 if their CPTE course prepares an individual for CEH and got a solid summarized response of, 'Yes'. It seems like if you take CPTE, you might as well sign up for the CEH exam. Maybe this will help you out http://mile2.com/articles/157-cpte-vs-ceh.html

Companies are of course all for promoting their training over others. It's overall a competitive world and there's tons of great resources out there. Take everything in before deciding! (:

kris

Hello nikmidu,

Welcome to the site. I'm not a subscriber personally, but I dug around here and found some older threads that may help out.

Hackin9 Magazine: Worthy?

New Security Magazine hackin9

Hackin9 First Online Issue

Going through some of the threads a couple members mention they're subscribers, you may want to PM them and ask them or hopefully they'll post here. Just hope these help you out a little bit more.

One of the more recent magazines that I hear are great is Pentest Magazine. You may want to consider it as a contender. Though I have heard Hackin9 puts on Pentest Magazine.

Hi dreams3577,

Welcome to EH-NET! Assuming you do have permission, you could utilize the auxiliary module: auxiliary/scanner/http/writable in Metasploit. Here's a guide from within Metasploit Unleashed:
http://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/HTTP_Writable

I hope this is what your looking for!

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