I don't really want to sign up just to see what the free courses are but are the free courses full courses or just samples? And is there anything interesting related to IT security?

Ratpoison! http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ 

Congrats Hayabusa, well done! Looking forward to the review.

openSUSE 11.4 was released yesterday and is available for download from: http://software.opensuse.org/114/en

Note: Firefox 4 Beta will be installed but can easily be downgraded to 3.x

I'll add some additional information once I have completed my upgrades and new installations.

The binary code on Jason's face .... needs to be decoded .... by hand 

I'll ask the obvious first, just to be sure

Have you generated your SSH keys with the " sshd-generate " command?
Can you successfully start SSHD " /etc/init.d/ssh start " ?
Can you confirm that SSHD is listening " netstat -antp | grep sshd " ?

First of all: Thank you Don and EH.NET! This is an awesome giveway and I'm really grateful!

Congratulations to my fellow winners angel.wardriver and timmedin!

And thanks to everyone else for the comments!

Good to see that he's been getting all the negative exposure he deserves.

My copy arrived a few days ago and I've read a few pages and skimmed over some random chapters/pages and so far, it's a very interesting book. I'm hoping to read the entire book soon and hopefully provide a detailed review.

You're welcome.
Crossfit, nice! I've tried some of the CF exercises and they are brutal, great for keeping in shape though.

I thought I'd post some information about a website that is pretty useful for tracking salary and trends related to demand/certification, it's UK based but lists average salary for certifications by region and more: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/

Here's a link for the CEH, if you scroll down you'll see the demand trend:

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/ceh.do

and CISSP: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/cissp.do

As far as HR requirements go for penetration testing, I'd say that the CEH is becoming more popular and recognised in the UK and surprisingly OSCP too. However, most UK based companies almost always request Tiger/CREST/CHECK certifications for pentesting.

CREST info: http://www.crest-approved.org/
CHECK info: http://www.cesg.gov.uk/products_services/iacs/check/index.shtml
Tiger info: http://www.tigerscheme.org/content.php?ID=2

The AIO book is one of the best CISSP study guides available imo. The self test software is also pretty good but nothing like the actual exam but it's useful for reinforcing concepts and terms. There are retired CISSP exam questions available from https://www.expresscertifications.com/ISC2/Catalog.aspx which realistically reflect the format of the CISSP exam questions.
http://www.cccure.org also has some great information like study tips for various Security exams such as CISSP, CISA, CISM and more. You can also take some free practice exams for the CISSP here: https://www.freepracticetests.org/quiz/index.php?page=register

Good luck!

I've removed the rapidshare link (max of 10 download limit reached) and I have added some additional links in my post above: http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,54/topic,4571.msg35138/#msg35138.

Hopefully those links will suffice  

Barclay Simpson has released a market report for 2011 which mentions that the demand for pentesters outweighs the supply. The report also mentions various roles and the salaries associated with those roles. The PDF can be downloaded from:

http://www.barclaysimpson.com/document_uploaded/BS_InfoSec_2011.pdf

No worries, the PDF will definitely come in handy for the OSCP