Black Hat Digital Self Defense USA 2006
Training

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Black Hat USA Training 2006
Caesars Palace Las Vegas • July 29-30

Course Length: Two days. All course materials, lunch and two coffee breaks will be provided. A Certificate of Completion will be offered.

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Hacking by Numbers: Cadet Edition

SensePost

What to bring:
Just Yourself.

All necessary equipment will be provided, including pre-configured laptops, tools and utilities.

Hacking By Numbers Cadet Edition is being offered for the first time ever this year as an introduction to the art and science of computer hacking. Even if you have no experience whatsoever Cadet Edition will equip you with the basic thinking and technical skills necessary to start exploring this fascinating world.

Overview:
Cadet Edition is an introductory course for technical people with no previous experience in the world of hacking. The course will present you with background information, technical skills and basic concepts required to get you going. This includes some coding and scripting, networking and Internet technologies, basic methodologies, essential thinking skills, tools and current hacking techniques.

Cadet Edition is the ideal training ground to prepare you for the HBN Bootcamp, further self-study or other hacking courses.

Prerequisites
Cadet Edition is designed for technical people who have no skill or experience in hacking. The course remains technical however, and students are expected to have a solid practical grasp of computer operating systems, networks and databases. SensePost will provide fully configured laptop computers as well as CDs with all the tools and materials used in the course.

Context
This course is the first in the Hacking By Numbers series. It’s aimed at beginners and serves to prepare students for the Bootcamp Edition. Cadet and Bootcamp Edition can be taken back-to-back. There is a small amount overlap between the courses.

Who should attend
Information security officers, system and network administrators, security consultants, government agencies and other nice people will all benefit from the valuable insights provided by this class.

Trainer:
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Roelof Temmingh is the technical director of SensePost where his primary function is that of external penetration specialist. Roelof is internationally recognized for his skills in the assessment of web servers. He has written various pieces of PERL code as proof of concept for known vulnerabilities, and coded the world-first anti-IDS web proxy "Pudding". He has spoken at many International Conferences and in the past year alone has been a keynote speaker at SummerCon (Holland) and a speaker at the Black Hat Briefings (New Orleans). Roelof drinks tea and smokes Camels.

Haroon Meer is currently SensePost's director of Development (and coffee drinking). He specializes in the research and development of new tools and techniques for network penetration and has released several tools, utilities and white-papers to the security community. He has been a guest speaker at many Security forums including the Black Hat Briefings. Haroon doesn't drink tea or smoke camels.

Charl van der Walt is a founding member of SensePost. He studied Computer Science at UNISA, Mathematics at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and has a Diploma in Information Security from the Rand Afrikaans University. He is an accredited BS7799 Lead Auditor with the British Institute of Standards in London. Charl has a number of years experience in Information Security and has been involved in a number of prestigious security projects in Africa, Asia and Europe. He is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences nationwide and is regularly published on internationally recognized forums like SecurityFocus. Charl has a dog called Fish.

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Course Length: Two days. All course materials, lunch and two coffee breaks will be provided. A Certificate of Completion will be offered.

Cost:

Early Bird:
Ends June 30, 2006

Regular:
Ends July 27, 2006

Onsite:
Begins July 28, 2006

$2200 USD

$2400 USD

$2500 USD

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