Welcome aboard buddy, you'll definitely going to learn a thing or two on this site.

Hi Champions,

Please help,

This is Sathish Kumar, I work as ISMS Guys offlate i am interested to learn and enhance my skills onto the field of Ethical Hacking.

My BackGround is that i worked as Windows Administartor for almost 8 years and 4 years into the ISMS, I have very good exposure of Using VA tools like Nessus,ISS and Foundstone tools, however i want to learn and enhance my skills in exploiting the reported vulnerabilities.however i have already dowloaded Metasploit 3, but i don't have a hacking exposure, Can anyone of u please do let me know is there is any step by step guide how to use the Metasploit  framework to exploit the known Vulnerabilities that exist or any other tools which can used for these activities.

Please suggest.


Regards,
Sathish Kumar.S

You can start by getting a basic understanding of metasploit by reading the user guide that comes along with it.
www.metasploit.com/documents/users_guide.pdf

After this you can proceed to other books.
http://books.google.com/books?q=metasploit

I'm currently reading Metasploit Toolkit for Penetration Testing, Exploit Development, and Vulnerability research and am happy with it.

Good Evening All~

Im new to the site and new to the IT security world... IT world in general so I'm really just here to get a grasp on things. As an ex-west pointer (left prior to graduation) I've been struggling over the past 4 1/2 years on what to really do with my life and it seems that I have finally found some insight. I started dabbling with the idea of "something IT related" about a year and a half ago.
   I decided that if im going to do something, I'm going to do something that interests me and I'm going to do it right. Granted I've been playing around with computers my whole life (Back to the mechwarrior days and 14.4k modems were the newest thing) but I never really gained a deeper level understanding. With that being said... Last week I kicked Microsoft to the curb, Installed Ubuntu as my sole OS and then started reading about this ethical hacking and IT security. I AM HOOKED. Been an athlete my whole life and these days I can do nothing but think about getting back to my computer to learn more. I'd just like to say thanks ahead of time to all of you guys (maybe a gal or two) who have contributed already and who will help me along on my journey.

L2R

Greetings Dtag.  You are a man after my own heart....welcome to this forum by the way.  I did the military route; and that as well as my wife did the trick to get my head on straight.  What knowledge do you have as of now?  That is a good barometer as to where and point you to.  What is your educational background.  How much experience/knowledge do you have in IT, and what does it consist of?  Your answers will help us help you.

Again, welcome to this forum.

Welcome to the forums.

If money is too short then use the free resources available - there are tons of them. Especially if you are very new to everything and need the basics you should be able to find some great websites, whitepapers and even free books.

Think about which topics interest you most and search for those through google. Also browsing through this forum may answer a few more questions you might have.

Yeah I had a feeling secrity wasn't entry level but I'm deffently hitting the library before the wifes derby practise today. Secrity is more of something I want in the long run don't want it right off cause I do wannna learn programming as well. Thanks for the help guys and I think I may of found this to be one of my new fave sites.