OSCP Passed!

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slinuxuzer

Very Awesome

YFZblu

Awesome, congrats! You eyeing CTP at all? I noticed their Advanced webapp course is going online soon as well.

NetworkNewb

Gratz! enjoyed reading the blog about it

MrAgent

YFZblu wrote: »

Awesome, congrats! You eyeing CTP at all? I noticed their Advanced webapp course is going online soon as well.

Maybe in the future. I have to renew my VCP and I want to get the CISSP this year.

cyberguypr

Congrats!

EngRob

Congrats! Great write up.

khiemkp

Wow cool, congratulations!

da_vato

Congrats!

Do you have any lessons learned or advice that you wish you knew prior to taking on the venture?

MrAgent

As far as lessons learned. All I can really say is try harder. I couldn't quite grasp the idea before the challenge, but I certainly can after passing.
I guess just be prepared to do a lot of research. Nothing is going to be handed to you, as was my case with "sufference". I am an avid Linux user, so using Kali wasn't a big deal to me. The more of Linux you know, the better off you will be.

JasminLandry

Congrats on the pass!

veritas_libertas

Congratulations!

BlackBeret

Congrats man. Knew you had it this time around.

H3||scr3am

Congratulations on passing the OSCP! OSCE next?

MrAgent

Maybe next year. I did enjoy the buffer overflow section of the course. I was able to understand it and make sense of it all.

Killj0y

Congrats! Never gave up. Very cool!!

MrAgent

Thanks. No I didn't give up, I only tried harder.

JasminLandry

What kind of programming skills is required to pass this exam?

BlackBeret

Be able to edit existing exploits, cross compile for different OS's, troubleshoot (google) error codes, repeat until the exploit works. Really the minimum is taught in the course, but I spent a lot of time searching error codes to clean up code and get it to compile.

MrAgent

Even that is beyond the scope of the class. I don't come from a programming background, but I can script when needed. You just need to be able to modify code to suit your situation.

Its really not that bad.

impelse

Good blog, I like the cat walking, LOL

john13619

Nice review and of course congrats

NovaHax

Congrats man. Your persistence is admirable. Well deserved.

SaSkiller

BlackBeret wrote: »

Be able to edit existing exploits, cross compile for different OS's, troubleshoot (google) error codes, repeat until the exploit works. Really the minimum is taught in the course, but I spent a lot of time searching error codes to clean up code and get it to compile.

So Ruby?

ccnpninja

Congrats!

dave0212

Congrats

This is next on my personal list of learning to do, just need to find the time

dgem8

Congratulations - a great accomplishment.

MrAgent

Thanks. My boss has already indicated that he will be looking into more security focused projects for the customer I work for.

5ekurity

Congratulations!! Outside of the OSCP material, what precursory material do you feel helped the most?

MrAgent

I kept the hackers playbook handy, and I learned from the buffer overflow section of Penetration Testing by Georgia Weidman.
On a side note... someone is trying to brute force my blog. Tsk tsk.

JoJoCal19

MrAgent wrote: »

On a side note... someone is trying to brute force my blog. Tsk tsk.

There's an answer for that

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