1/25 reading

The reading for this week was a pretty comprehensive tutorial/manual for metasploit. I thought it was very good and organized rather well. I thought it was nice and simple, didn’t get too into the weeds. It was very good for people at our level of experience with the software. I’ve been pleasantly surprised so far by how straight forward metasploit is. A tool like this can seem intimidating but when it comes time to use it, it seems rather simple.

My question for the class: since some of us tried metasploit last semester for fun, were there any resources that you found beneficial?

Article: http://www.zdnet.com/article/teslacrypt-vulnerability-exposes-ransomed-files-to-free-cracking/

I thought this article was funny because it shows that sometimes the bad guys don’t execute very well and it leaves an embarrassing failure like this one behind. This ransomware can be decrypted without anyone needing to “pay up” for the stolen data.