Here’s my study guide for the CompTIA PenTest+ beta exam. I have yet to take the test, but have been following the random public comments shared by others.
All of these topics are from the exam objectives, but some things are mentioned more often online than others. I’m focusing my studies on what people are talking about the most.
Or, what to study hardest…
Kioptrix 2 is a Vulnhub VM. This is the first in a series of write-ups of various hands-on hacking resources I will be working through on my way to the OSCP.
We will need this later for reverse shells and other fun.
ifconfig
netdiscover
Look for something in the netdiscover output with a MAC Vendor / Hostname of “VMWare.”
Found it, in my case it’s 192.168.1.114
After completing the CEH, I immediately set my sights on the OSCP.
That’s the Offensive Security Certified Professional. It is notorious for its 24-hour long exam and (suspected) low pass rate, as well as its challenging course labs.
All the cool nerds want this cert. That includes me, of course! I MUST HAVE IT.
I’ve never experienced such great range and throughput from a WiFi router. Dead spots are gone in my home.
We all have a healthy radioactive glow.
Within days, we started getting major stability problems. Our Google Homes and Chromecasts were dropping connection and requiring manual reboots nearly every hour.
The Orbi was expensive and I expected better than this. It should be a rock-solid, set-and-forget system for that price.
The firmware updates weren’t helping, but I wasn’t ready to give up on it yet.
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I recently passed EC-Council’s CEH v9 exam. It was my first experience taking a certification exam.
I spent 5 months or so studying off and on, but didn’t really buckle down with my efforts until the last two weeks.
Here is what I used. I’ll provide a short breakdown of what was essential and what I wouldn’t bother with if I had to do it again.
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… temporarily, at least.
Like many large Windows 10 updates, the newest one trashed my VirtualBox setup. This has happened to my VMWare Workstation installations as well, in the past.
The Pi 3 generates way more heat than its predecessors. There are tons of dirt cheap heatsinks available for less than $1 from AliExpress and sometimes they come for free with cases.
I wanted to see if these were worth using or if I should splurge on some better ones.
Browser Sync is nice but sometimes it is not available or it’s just plain overkill.
I wanted to always be able to refresh my web browser window with a keystroke while still keeping my code editor open and focused.
I use the 64-bit version of Firefox Developer Edition for Windows.
The simple AutoHotkey snippet below will refresh the current Firefox Developer Edition edition tab when the F5 key is pressed within Sublime Text, while still keeping the focus on Sublime Text.
Eating healthy takes too much time, too often. And it’s expensive.
I usually skip eating anything more complicated than a granola bar for breakfast and end up feeling mentally sluggish and generally horrible right up until lunch. I need to manage my blood sugar better.
Enter the meal replacement Soylent, currently popular with programmers and various other nerd-types. I read about it on MakeUseOf and was convinced to give it a fair shot.
I wanted to be able to selectively enable and disable the built-in WordPress function wpautop() ‐ On for blog posts and off for pages. And if I want to override either of those defaults, I should be able to do that with Custom Fields for the post or page.
