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General discussion / Re: Current Careers & Aspirations
« on: December 27, 2015, 08:56:53 pm »
I work in disaster recovery and business continuity at the moment. Been about 6 months, my first IT job. I've learned a lot in a short amount of time. Currently chopping through a B.S in Cyber Security as well and hope to get the Linux+ sometime this year. Before this I was a security guard making shit money and giving people tickets for having their dogs shit where they weren't supposed to. Things have unfolded quick and couldn't be better. My pm box is open if I can help at all and also I should be on IRC more.

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General discussion / Re: What were your Christmas presents?
« on: December 25, 2015, 09:27:57 pm »
Got new Darth Vader onesie and a chrome cast. Life is good . Merry Christmas to EZ.

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Hacking and Security / Re: Top books you would suggest about hacking?
« on: November 26, 2015, 04:21:26 am »
Quote from: 0E 800 on November 10, 2015, 12:56:30 am
  • As a Man Thinketh by James Allan
  • The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
  • The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz


You really need to hack your own mind first, change some registry values, root it (think for yourself), and then you can start reading about computers and networking.

This was such a profound and awesome answer. Cookie for you. Four agreements is a great read I will say.

 I will add a little on what the others have said. Get some fundamental knowledge under your belt. Read code, write code. Pick a topic or several topics and give yourself some time slots during the week where you will practice applicability to what you have learned. Over time the pieces will come together.

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General discussion / Re: Career Move
« on: October 09, 2015, 02:22:44 pm »
Quote from: Kulverstukas on September 27, 2015, 09:52:23 pm
I'd say it's a good choice, make "hacking" your hobby and if you get good at it, aim for professional level. You still need to get a good foundation of programming before going into "pentesting".
It might be interesting for you to watch this course : https://evilzone.org/video-tutorials/the-dark-side-of-technology-careers/

Cool link man. Watching it now.

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General discussion / Re: Career Move
« on: October 07, 2015, 04:45:20 am »
I work tech support as well, just hang in there and keep learning. I'm in an online cyber security program at my school while working here so it works out great. I'm available for pm as well.

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General discussion / Re: Talking about Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick
« on: October 07, 2015, 04:41:45 am »
I listened to the audio book to and from work, took me a week or so. I enjoyed it, very entertaining. I'll comment more on it later when I have time. It's amazing seeing the adversity he went through.

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Hacking and Security / Re: Need help with Gmail a/c hacking of a deceased!
« on: September 26, 2015, 05:39:19 pm »
Did you try a simple password restore using security questions ? Maybe there is someone in the family that knows these answers if you do not. Assuming that he did set up these questions properly that is.

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Hacking and Security / Re: Breaking into school servers
« on: September 26, 2015, 01:32:54 am »
Go home, spin up a windows server vm and learn a little more what a domain controller is and does. It will help you learn more and save you some jail time and lost scholarships due to penalties. Not to be a dick, but there's a pretty good chance whoever set this network up knows a lot more about networking than you do.

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Hacking and Security / Re: Most rewarding hack you've ever done?
« on: September 20, 2015, 01:31:33 am »
One I can think of is work related. At my job we have several standards which use zfs file systems and sometimes creating the raid mirror on the fly is time consuming, so I wrote a python script to do it . I won a special edition nerf gun as a reward, but then later got flamed for not porting it to a bash script lol.

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General discussion / Re: How do you feel about sharing your knowledge?
« on: August 18, 2015, 09:29:31 am »
I like sharing information with people. Sometimes, reiterating knowledge helps me absorb it better than if I didn't share it all. I do know some folks though (Personally, not on this forum.. Well, maybe occasionally on this forum) that just do NOT want to fucking read, or do any research on their own.

I've been at this since I was 13 or 14, and spent MANY hours on my own learning how things work, and sharing that information with people I will never meet in 20 lifetimes. I love every second of it. As i've gotten older, i've learned to have more balance in life, but the one thing that always remains is that some people just demand to be spoon fed.

I love what we do, and love being apart of this community. Every day I run into things i've never seen or heard of before and it's always awesome when there is that one person on the boards or on the irc that can spill a little bit in real time and save me a trip to...... ::) google .


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General discussion / Re: Muscle Milk, yes or no?
« on: August 08, 2015, 10:07:01 am »
No.

Eat food.

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General discussion / Re: Who upgraded to Windows 10?
« on: August 03, 2015, 05:43:52 pm »
My only question now is how long before 7 isn't supported anymore ? Lol

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Beginner's Corner / Re: Career
« on: July 13, 2015, 12:07:37 am »
Stop googling ?

Not sure I agree with that one. Google is the nectar of the God's for me. Basically from my experience, no matter what the pedigree it's very difficult to just jump into a cyber security career. I'm currently pursuing a cyber security degree and working as a tech for a disaster recover center and making pretty decent money. I highly recommend that you keep googling, and start narrowing your topics down on certain things you will spend time on to avoid overload and confusion .

Jump on the irc, run Linux and start coding . As for the school thing, definitely major in cyber security or computer science / information systems if available. To this day no matter what technology has changed, I highly recommend you go to this website and read the articles this great hacker has produced over the years .

www.catb.org/~esr

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General discussion / Re: Ideas on "What to do first"
« on: July 09, 2015, 07:22:12 am »
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Perhaps you all can offer a better ideas as to where I should start...or what to "do first" to ease into things.

Sure.

How about change your mindset ? If cracking a local Wireless network (That i'm guessing is not yours ), is the first thing that you can fathom in terms of today's technology, and your interests, then you need to change your mindset my friend.

I'm not in the flaming business by any means, but man try to focus on making things instead of breaking them. If that doesn't interest you, perhaps you're in the wrong place.

How about reading the stickies, for starters.

This wouldn't hurt either:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Goodluck

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Operating System / OS X ?
« on: June 07, 2015, 02:42:46 am »
just curious how many of you use Apple products (mainly OS X), as either your main OS or one in your arsenal ? It seems at every infosec conference I see or hear of, the place is filled with lit up apples. I can see some of its glamour, with OS X being built around Unix. I myself have never owned an Apple computer, but wanted some suggestions why to run it if you do. I can see some of the thrills such as it looking really 'pretty', which Apple is quite good at. Also it having parallel, which seems to run VM's well. Cmon lets hear it. I can google and ask my friends but wanted to hear from EZ folks. If this is a retread thread forgive me in advance.

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