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Re: Immunity Certified Network Offense Professional
From: "Thomas Ptacek" <tqbf () matasano com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:49:49 -0500
> Specifically, to obtain the certification you will need to write a > buffer overflow from scratch within a certain time period. You will > first find the buffer overflow by reverse engineering a target program, > and then obtain a shell from it or execute a command. This is a hands-on > certification, not a paper test. Sounds like potentially a meaningful, if narrow, test.
Some of the most effective pentesters I've met would not be able to pass this. This is the problem with all certifications. I get the "joke" here, so don't take that as a criticism. Although you should have made an acronym for MOV AX, AX work instead. -- --- Thomas H. Ptacek // matasano security read us on the web: http://www.matasano.com/log _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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