[Dailydave] Immunity Certified Network Offense Professional

[Thomas Ptacek]

>  > 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.

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Thomas H. Ptacek // matasano security
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