Ok so I felt a little cheated about skimping on the infosec related course ware in my last post so I wanted to make it up to you. On of my favorite “how tos” (there are several) is the webpwnized channel on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/webpwnized?feature=results_main The contributors know how to break down technical attacks and show us the auidience how to perform technical attacks/run technical tools. I am interested in hearing from the public on any sites the like for a “how to guide” on ethical hacking or other security related topics.
Online Courses
I thought to myself you can’t introduce a “Education” tab without mentioning two of perhaps the most famous free online academies: Kahn Academy and Open Course Ware at MIT. Khan Academy, http://www.khanacademy.org/, offers mainly high school level courses but they do have some advanced stuff to include some course ware in computer science (python programming). MIT, http://ocw.mit.edu/ on the other hand offers advanced collegiate level courses. Both offer upwards of 200+ courses which can be used to brush up on some rusty items or to learnn something new.
I know niether of these are Information Security (infosec) related but they have excellent stuff. Don’t worry I will include infosec items too,
Free DISA Security Awareness/Information Assurance Training
As you can see we have added a new section to our website – Education. Here we will share freely accessible training, how-tos, and other posts that fall into the general educational category. For our first post we wanted to share the DIS Security training available at http://iase.disa.mil/eta/online-catalog.html If you are new to the infosec (Information Security) go check them out – they are not half bad and the price is right.
Behind the Scenes Contributor – Renee
SecureMaryland welcomes Renee, aka “the rabbott”, to the team. She has been in the Information Security field for over 14 years and just recently accepted an IT Auditor engagement with a company in Baltimore. With Information Technology being a second career for Renee, she enjoys talking shop and can’t resist a good brain dump from the brilliant minds she engages with during the course of her travels. Renee loves being with family, close friends, and is a total sucker for all things warm and cuddly.
BackBox
Today we offer the BackBox Mind Map – a graphical represnetation of all the tools that make up the distro. This along with the other Mind Maps we are building, will be part of our “all inclusive” Vulnerability Assessments/ Penetration Testing Mind Map we are building – the ultimate Mind Map that everyone from beginners to experts, can use. I hope this is a useful guide for those unfamilar with the distro, and or pentesting methodology.



