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Re: Immunity Certified Network Offense Professional
From: root <root_ () fibertel com ar>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:31:02 -0300
Thomas Ptacek wrote:
> 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 think that exploit writing is a very different activity than pen testing. And even if a pen-tester get that certification, he would be writing an exploit for a platform 8 years old, without any modern BOF protection. I wonder what is the point. _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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