In another forum topic, xXxKrisxXx made reference to a site called Learn Security Online:

'If your looking to go a cheaper route and want to get your hands dirty for a cheap price, Learn Security Online has a beginners course called  "So You Wanna Be A Pentester". For $300 and access to the LSO lab environment to test your skills, this one's a steal.'

Here is the site for reference: http://www.learnsecurityonline.com/index.php

I was browsing around on this site today and couldn't really fine anything recently posted as far as this class goes, nor could I find an email address to ask questions of them.

To the best of your knowledge, is this still an active site? If so, have any of you used this site and would you recommend it? I am looking to get my feet wet in the Ethical Hacking/Pen Testing realm and would like some feedback on this site, or another if you know of.

Thank you in advance,

-Samurai

Hey BlueEyedSamurai,

Welcome to the forums. If you have a question about the course you could shoot them a question at: contactus@elearnsecurity.com

I'm in the training now currently and although I haven't been utilizing it much, I've gone through some of the slides and back up impelse where he says,

The sites still active and they've added a forum area for their students as well as a feedback section where they take folks' ideas and consider implementing them into the course.

-Kris

Hey BlueEyedSamurai,

I know the authors pretty well, they have some good stuff. Right now they are trying to restructure the course. You should email joe@learnsecurityonline.com and ask him what he's got going on atm.

From what I'm getting from Jhaddix's post, I think he's telling Impelse to hold off for a little while before taking elearnsecurity's course since they're reconstructing it. This is good criticism because I don't know what version the course is at currently and I think the updates going to be large. I'm really hoping they plan on implementing VPN labs into the course (Like how LSO and Offensive-Security has in their courses).

Taken from elearnsecurity's site:

It'd be disappointing if you bought the course at it's current version and this updates so large they consider making it 2.0 and you don't get access to content Samurai. If your going the LSO route instead of ELS Samurai - what course do you plan on taking?

- Your welcome.

  Thanks all for the replies.

I do and did understand that we were talking about two different courses. My initial reason for posting was to get feedback on learnsecurityonline.com as I had read about that site in another post but was wondering why I didn't see any updated content on their site.

Impelse then updated with elearnsecurity.com. So I investigated that one also. I did email Armando yesterday and received a response already. They are in the middle of finishing their Student course and should be done by October.

I was looking for an introduction to Pen Testing with labs (preferably) at a reasonable price.

Thanks again.

-Samurai

Great, hopely you will enjoy it.

Some parts are difficult to understand but after reviewing two or three times and reading some extra information you get it.

What module did you begin?

Buffer overflow and shell code are difficult for me. I liked more sql injection. I did not check the Network security yet