Has anyone passed the nidan class yet ?

The labs are pretty cool, I'm taking it nice and easy towards Shodan first though No need to rush it for me hehe 

I can answer that...

Right now there is a mix of Linux and windows systems that are all exploitable. However, over the next week there will be other systems added that are not exploitable, in order to provide a realistic example of an internal pentest. By the end of this week, there will be switches and routers added as well, with additional network(s) within the lab so students can practice network hacking. There will also be layer 2 attack options added, along with web hacking.

The lab is designed, like I mentioned, to simulate what can be done in a real world pentest. We have the targets and the hardware inline... we are just adding them one at a time over this entire week to make sure everything works smoothly.

Cool Sounds good Tom i put my name forward once I have been thought all the lesson as don't want miss anything out.

Actually, in my book "Professional Penetration Testing" I brought up this exact problem - how can you learn to hack something when you already know the solution? Which is why I created the De-ICE disks; they are liveCDs that you can run on a system or in VM, and begin to hack immediately. Check out http://forums.heorot.net to download them.

I have some De-ICE images in the Hacking Dojo lab, but not just those. You might also want to install other systems as well, especially older windows platforms, in order to practice certain exploits... finding vulnerabilities is one skill, effectively exploiting them is another, especially with all the options available on the various tools we use.

That's extremely helpful, I'm glad I asked. Thank you Grendel and hayabusa!

also this kinder review I done on my website on shodan its not the best in the world but people may find it useful.

http://www.jamierougive.co.uk/dojo.html