Online Training Session 1:

June 22 - Registration for this session closes June 15

Online Training Session 2:

July 6 - Registration for this session closes June 29

Hacking by Numbers Cadet Online Edition

SensePost

Pricing: $1000

Overview:

Hacking by Numbers, Cadet Online 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.

The Online Edition course is a self paced course, with narrated course material for each section. The practical exercises are no different to those found in the normal Cadet course. These are delivered to the student via a hosted virtual classroom complete with all the relevant servers and devices. Interaction with the course instructor is provided via voice and text chat at the start and end of each day. These sessions provide the students with an overview of the materials and allow them to ask questions related to the course. Interaction via email is also available throughout the duration of the course.

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

Prerequisite:

• 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. For the Online Edition, students will access the virtual classroom via a terminal server from the comfort of their home or office. SensePost will provide the students 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.

Who Should Attend:

If you're planning to attend HBN "Bootcamp" or another basic hacking course at Black Hat then you should consider this online course as a way to secure the foundational skills you need. 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.

How It Works:

1. Our slide decks have been ported to a Flash format with voice-overs blended in. This allows the students to browse through the materials, pause the presentation and move forward and backward as they please. The voice-over is by an experienced trainer and is presented in the same anecdotal style we use in our regular courses. There's also a transcript of the speaker's presentation that ensures students understand the trainer and allows them to copy and reuse code, commands, addresses etc from the dialog.
2. The Flash slides are accompanied by the same lab sheets and accompanying answer sheets that are used in our regular training.
3. In order to complete the labs students connect to a Microsoft Terminal Server over the Internet. Each student has their own desktop that's pre-installed and configured with everything they'll need, including an SSH session to the Linux box that's needed for some of the labs. In this way the student walks right into a clean pre-configured environment with a full Windows and Linux toolset. All the targets, along with the classroom infrastructure like web and DNS servers, are available on virtual networks attached to the Terminal Server.
4. The course is broken up into a series of "modules," where a module corresponds to a number of slides from the deck, followed by a lab exercise from the lab sheets. The students can work their way through the slides in the module then tackle the corresponding labs by logging onto the Terminal Server.
5. Although students work their way through the materials and labs on their own time, they are expected to complete each module within a certain amount of time. At the start and end of each module there is a trainer briefing that occurs via Skype. Students are given an overview of the materials and labs to follow and are given the opportunity to ask questions and make comments.
6. There is also an interim Skype briefing at fixed times at the start and end of each day. Finally, students have the opportunity to submit questions via email during the course of the day that will be dealt with by the trainer at the next briefing. In this manner we envisage a two-day classroom being spread over a five-day or even a seven-day period.

Trainers:

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 Waltis 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.