So we’ve been doing a bit of HackTheBox to prepare for the OSCP, and this is a write-up for the Valentine Machine. First let’s enumerate – scan the ports! nmap -sC -sV -Pn 10.10.10.79 seems port 22, 80, 443 are open so we browse to the 80 first We get a nice picture, that seems […]
Month: July 2018
EC-Council CEH Certification
The Certified Ethical Hacker v9.. what a prestigious name, should have turned me away but it didn’t. I wanted it because it was a “check the box” activity.. many companies and contracts are looking for this on your resume so I figured why not. In the end the content was extremely similar to the CompTIA […]
CompTIA Security+ Certification
Honestly – I don’t have much for you here.. My company paid for a 3-day boot camp. Two eight hour days of learning and exam on the third day. About 70% of us passed, but overall I think it was pretty basic of an exam. Just memorize memorize memorize and you’ll pass like I did! […]
CCNA Certification
My first step was getting the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA Routing and Switching) certification to get fundamental network knowledge, to really understand all the layers of the OSI model, and to understand how packets flow, how DNS resolves, and how firewalls/routers work at a fundamental level. Looking back, I still think this certification was […]