It’s three months since I wrote my last “Where I’m at” post.
I must admit this cyber security hobby is something of a time vampire and extremely addictive. Here’s a breakdown of where I find myself currently:
Just upgraded to a Ruby Programming book known in the community as the “PickAxe” entitled: Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0 The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide. This is the latest version of the book and I aim to run Ruby 2.0 in an RVM for the time being.
I’m attempting to get my hands on a cheap laptop from which to run Security Onion on a network tap, to learn about intrusion detection and make more use of Wireshark.
I want to explore packets at a deeper level and so have (finally) installed PacketFu which is a packet manipulation tool similar to Scapy but written in Ruby, which should also help with programming progress.
I shall continue working with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Broken Web Applications Project (owaspbwa) and hopefully learn more on Web Application security .
For light relief, I’m going all script kiddie and want to make use of Metasploit’s GUI Armitage and Nmap’s Zenmap. I’ve done quite a bit through the command prompt on both tools and need something more fun and visuals.
I’ve come a long way in three months, but haven’t reached the foot of the mountain.
That’s where I’m at.