by Julien Ahrens | Friday, April 22, 2022 | Certifications
Introduction This is a review of the Advanced Web Attacks and Exploitation (WEB-300) course and its OSWE exam by Offensive-Security. I’ve taken this course because I was curious about what secret tricks this course will offer for its money, especially...
by Julien Ahrens | Monday, June 27, 2016 | Certifications
As you may have noticed, I have posted a couple of articles about my SecurityTube Linux Assembly Expert exam during the last months. Now that I have successfully completed the course, I just want to share my thoughts about it for those of you who...
by Julien Ahrens | Thursday, April 28, 2016 | Certifications
Do you want to fool antivirus software? When you look through hacking forums for a solution to this, you will likely encounter the term “crypter”. You will also find this tool in the arsenal of every advanced penetration tester and it is the obvious...
by Julien Ahrens | Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | Certifications
Question: How can signature-based Intrusion Detection systems be defeated? Answer: Using polymorphic shellcodes! This might sound really crazy and cyber, but it has nothing to do with inventing fancy new hacking techniques, it’s rather about...
by Julien Ahrens | Thursday, August 13, 2015 | Certifications
One very common tool among penetration testers is Metasploit, which includes a lot of nice exploits and payloads. The 5th assignment of the SecurityTube Linux Assembly Expert certification is about Metasploit shellcode analyses for Linux/x86 target systems. The...
by Julien Ahrens | Sunday, January 18, 2015 | Certifications
Anti-Virus and Intrusion Detection Systems could become really nasty during a penetration test. They are often responsible for unstable or ineffective exploit payloads, system lock-downs or even angry penetration testers 😉 . The following article is about a...