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Dec 21, 2011
4 min read
PWB in the Caribbean, Part 2
In our ongoing series covering our most recent live PWB in the Caribbean course, Johnny picks up from Part 1 and provides an inside and personal look at the course as it picks up speed and increases in difficulty.

Penetration Testing
Offensive Security Wireless Attacks Updated
At long last, our highly rated Wireless Attacks Course (Wi-Fu) has been updated to version 3! This is a major revision of the course with a complete restructure and redesign of the course content with a far broader range of attack techniques.
Dec 7, 2011
2 min read

Exploit Development
MS11-080 Exploit – A Voyage into Ring Zero
Every patch Tuesday, we, like many in the security industry, love to analyze the released patches and see if any of them can lead to the development of a working exploit. Recently, the MS11-080 advisory caught our attention as it afforded us the opportunity to play in the kernel and try to get a working privilege escalation exploit out of it.
Dec 6, 2011
6 min read

Exploit Development
Advanced Windows Exploitation Updated
Our Advanced Windows Exploitation (AWE) live course in Columbia, Maryland is fast approaching with a start-date of October 24. Not only is the first time we have offered this training outside of BlackHat, it is also the first time we are able to offer a full 5 days of training and a limited number of seats are still available for this intense course.
Oct 12, 2011
2 min read

Kali Linux
Metasploit: A Penetration Testers Guide
Offensive Security is happy to announce the availability of Metasploit, The Penetration Tester’s Guide – A new book by Dave Kennedy (ReL1K), Devon Kearns (dookie), Jim O’Gorman (_Elwood_), and Mati Aharoni (muts). The book is released through No Starch Press.
Jul 12, 2011
2 min read

Kali Linux
MSFU Updates – June 2011
Over this past month, we have put a great deal of time into bringing our free online course, Metasploit Unleashed in line with BackTrack 5. The majority of these changes are cosmetic in nature but they should help to reduce confusion for newcomers to Metasploit and BackTrack while ensuring a consistent look throughout. We have also taken this opportunity to do more functionality verification in the course.
Jun 16, 2011
1 min read

Kali Linux
MSFU Updates – May 2011
This month, even with the rampant development and release of BackTrack 5, we still devoted some time to updating Metasploit Unleashed. The Metasploit team is making a great deal of progress switching over to post-exploitation modules so we focused entirely on them this month and added many to the Metasploit Module Reference section.
May 16, 2011
1 min read

Kali Linux
MSFU Updates – April 2011
This past month has seen more additions to our free Metasploit Unleashed training course, primarily in our on-going effort to build out the Metasploit Module Reference section. Also, with the Metasploit team moving away from meterpreter scripts in favor of post-exploitation modules, we have been updating the relevant sections of MSFU.
Apr 18, 2011
1 min read

Kali Linux
Discover your inner Pirate
For the last two years Offensive Security has been taking the live training market by storm with its flagship course, Pentesting with BackTrack. We are very excited to announce that the next PWB live training will be held in an exotic location the Caribbean island of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Apr 14, 2011
2 min read

Kali Linux
BackTrack 5 on a Motorola Xoom
In the past few days we have been toying with some Motorola hardware, and have managed to get a basic build of BackTrack 5 (+ toolchain) on a Motorola Xoom. The possibilities look exciting as we are slowly building several experimental arm packages. Our team does not have much experience with the Android OS nor ARM hardware, but so far – so good. We will not promise an ARM release on May 10th, as this new “experiment” was not planned in any way – but we’ll do our best.
Apr 12, 2011
2 min read

Kali Linux
MSFU Updates – March 2011
This past month has seen more additions to our free Metasploit Unleashed training course, primarily in our on-going effort to build out the Metasploit Module Reference section. At the same time, we are still continuing to work through the course content to ensure that it is still all functional.
Mar 15, 2011
1 min read

Kali Linux
MSFU Updates – February 2011
This past month has seen a number of additions to our free Metasploit Unleashed training course, primarily in our on-going effort to build out the Metasploit Module Reference section. In addition, we are still continuing to work through the course content to ensure that it is still all functional.
Feb 15, 2011
1 min read

Kali Linux
MSFU Updates – January 2011
This past month has seen a number of additions to our free Metasploit Unleashed training course, primarily in our on-going effort to build out the Metasploit Module Reference section. The Metasploit team has been developing at a rapid pace with new features and modules being frequently added. We are also continuing to go through the course content itself and verify the functionality of the provided material.
Jan 17, 2011
1 min read
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