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Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! (infosec.pub)

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Weekly thread for any and all career, learning and general guidance questions. Thinking of taking a training or going for a cert? Wondering how to level up your career? Wondering what NOT to do? Got other questions? This is the time and place to ask!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, check out David Bombal on YouTube. He interviews hackers. I recommend looking at those and the channels of people he interviews

I pay @three_cubed AKA master OTW [occupy the web]. It's good information, but what's your academic background like? I came in with an advanced degree and felt the tier that was right for me was the most expensive (subscriber pro)

My day job isn't infosec related, but when I do find time to better those skills I've found this loop pretty fun:

Vulnerability scan websites (like with owasp zap) Find a most severe vulnerabilities I haven't done before (XSS for example)

Play capture the flag targeting that vulnerability.

Similar process works with nmap or shodan to get information about what services are running on an IPs port. Then using metasploit to try and run scans/fuzz inputs, deliver payload, run exploit, and perform post exploitation activities (typically data infiltration/exfoliation)

Eventually I'm gonna try and get into reverse engineering malware

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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This is amazing info, thank you! So I have a BS in comp sci and applied math but all my experience is from ~10 years in different roles in IT from helpdesk to now cloud engineering/devops. I've had been doing some CTF's and Juice Shop for a bit but fell off because things got busy (as they always do). Lately I've been looking at reversing DRM for old shareware games just to get more familiar with the concepts but it's been mostly looking rather than doing so far lol. What I really want to get better at are namely two things:

Container security and exploiting it
Getting better at understanding how things work at lower levels to be better at reverse engineering

Really appreciate the insight and hope that everything goes well with your plans!