Author Archive for: ‘admin’
Live Training in St. Kitts and Nevis
Our recent Penetration Testing with BackTrack Live Training in St. Kitts was a great success. This was the first time that we have done the class in the Caribbean, and we were really curious to see how it would go – as there is no …
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Modern Warfare Students vs Trainers 0×2
Our first modern warfare tournament against our students was… humbling. Don’t get me wrong, we had our victories, but all in all we left the grounds wounded and limping. Between getting blown up by RPGs, massacred by drones or carpet bombed by B52′s we didn’t have it easy. Unfortunately, this was all documented and very soon, the screenshots and youtube videos arrived. The ones voted the best, somehow involved me getting blown up, as you can see below.
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Announcing the OSEE Certification
Since the inception of our Advanced Windows Exploitation (AWE) course, our students (who are always searching for more pain) have been asking for an accompanying certification exam. We are very pleased to announce the launch of the Offensive Security Exploit Expert (OSEE) certification.
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The Art of Human Hacking
It’s hard to believe that the social-engineer.org project began 14 months ago. This project started from a simple idea to build the world’s first framework for social engineers. In these 14 months, this project has grown into the leading resource for all real social …
Read More →OSX ROP Exploit Article, EDB updates
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A great start for our EDB DEV group. Last week we dug into some published HP vulnerabilities, and came out with 3 exploits which were published this week. Our highlight this week is an awesome writeup about a OSX ROP Exploit case study by didn0t. Check it out!
How to Update to BackTrack 2.6.34
Several people have been asking for instructions on updating hard drive installs of BackTrack – here’s a quick set of commands to upgrade your BackTrack machine – and prepare the kernel sources – for example VMWare tools or VirtualBox tools kernel module compilations.
Read More →BackTrack ISO Kernel 2.6.34 Upgrade
Last night we moved a new kernel package (2.6.34) out of the testing repositories, and into the official ones. This kernel update marks a huge improvement in hardware support and desktop responsiveness. In addition to the kernel, we have added several external wireless drivers – madwifi-ng (ath_pci), broadcom-sta (wl, no injection), r8187 drivers and rt73 k2wrlz drivers.
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BackTrack 5 and Exploit-DB Updates
Exciting times here at Offensive Security. Two of our most major projects are off to new and amazing directions – BackTrack and the Exploit Database. The BackTrack development team is now officially funded by Offensive Security, bringing a new era of a high quality penetration testing distribution. In addition, the EDB has started a new R&D initiative which will result in some interesting blog posts.
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How to Hack your Way to BlackHat Vegas
This past weekend Offensive Security ran its second cyber hacking challenge, “How Strong is Your Fu – Hacking for Charity“. We first separated the contestants into groups of 10 and each had 48 hours to hack into our 5 evil machines that were conjured up by the VM gremlins of the Offensive Security Team.
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Penetration Testing Tools
We are coming close to a public release of BackTrack R1 – the world’s leading penetration testing distribution. We wanted to provide an opportunity for our users to make last suggestions for tools which are currently NOT present , but should be included. Please use the following form to submit your suggestions to our development team.
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