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    • First Half of the Semester
      • Week 1: Course Introduction
      • Week 2: Meterpreter, Avoiding Detection, Client Side Attacks, and Auxiliary Modules
      • Week 3: Social Engineering Toolkit, SQL Injection, Karmetasploit, Building Modules in Metasploit, and Creating Exploits
      • Week 4: Porting Exploits, Scripting, and Simulating Penetration Testing
      • Week 5: Independent Study – Perform Metasploit Attack and Create Presentation
      • Week 6: Ettercap
      • Week 7: Introduction to OWASP’s WebGoat application
    • Second Half of the Semester
      • Week 8: Independent Study
      • Week 9: Introduction to Wireless Security
      • Week 10: Wireless Recon, WEP, and WPA2
      • Week 11: WPA2 Enterprise, Wireless beyond WiFi
      • Week 12: Jack the Ripper, Cain and Able, Delivery of Sample Operating Systems
      • Week 13: Independent Study – Analyze provided Operating System Samples and Create Assessment Report
      • Week 14: Deliver Assessment to Operating System Class either in person or via teleconferenc
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    • Group Project Report and Presentation
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MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing

MIS 5212 - Section 001 - Wade Mackey

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Andres Galarza

Privacy Extensions and VPN

March 7, 2018 by Andres Galarza Leave a Comment

I was curious what other people used to block ads or for their other privacy needs online. I use uBlock Origin on Firefox and recently installed Privacy Badger on Chrome. As far as a VPN, I subscribe to Private Internet Access.

Creepy laughing Alexa

March 7, 2018 by Andres Galarza 1 Comment

Over the past few days, users with Alexa-enabled devices have reported hearing strange, unprompted laughter. Amazon responded to the creepiness today in a statement to The Verge, saying, “We’re aware of this and working to fix it.”

For Whom the Cell Trolls

March 7, 2018 by Andres Galarza Leave a Comment

A new book argues that modern wars will be won with phones and laptops rather than tanks.

I was interested enough by the conversation surrounding this book on Hacker News that I sprung for the it. Information operations/warfare is fascinating to me, and I’ll give a recap of the book when I’ve finished it.

One of Apple’s most embarrassing leaks

March 6, 2018 by Andres Galarza Leave a Comment

How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone’s Most Sensitive Code

On Wednesday, an anonymous person published the proprietary source code of a core and fundamental component of the iPhone’s operating system.

Full Story Here.

Risky Business Podcast

February 4, 2018 by Andres Galarza 4 Comments

Another course that I’m taking this semester has us listening to information security related podcasts, and I thought I’d share one that I found.

Published weekly, the Risky Business podcast features news and in-depth commentary from security industry luminaries. Hosted by award-winning journalist Patrick Gray, Risky Business has become a must-listen digest for information security professionals.

Risk Business Podcast

This week’s episode highlights the below.

  • Strava heatmap
  • Dutch infiltration of Cozy Bear
  • Possible nationalization of the US 5G network on security grounds
  • Microsoft disabling Intel Spectre patches
  • Google’s Chronicle announcement
  • US$400m Cryptocurrency ownage

The Strava heatmap topic was personally interesting to me, since I was able to find the base I was stationed at in Afghanistan without any issues. It wasn’t a special or secret base, but it wasn’t one of the huge ones either, so it was interesting.

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