Hacking Fundamentals- A Students View
July 8, 2010
I completed the Hacking Fundamentals module today and I found some interesting things. There is a section on the mind of a hacker… lead instructor Mike Murray goes into good detail on how the “hacker” or pen tester thinks or should be thinking, followed up by some labs on Convergent and Divergent Thinking as well as Inductive and Abductive Reasoning. I have to say that if becoming a good penetration tester takes this much thinking, I don’t know how long I will survive 
. When I downloaded the slides there was a description of hacker similarities, they are curious, have many intellectual properties and have the ability to provide a process to a problem. That being the case, our defenses should be pretty good, which in a lot of cases they aren’t up to snuff. There was some good info in the Security Fundamentals module that is easy to understand if you are a beginner and some stuff that could definitely be used as a good refresher for a more advanced security professional. After seeing all of the basics in this module, I am ready to get my hands dirty in module 2 and learn about reconnaissance. Until my next update from the eyes of a student…
Aaron
