hey watsup man thanks for coming to my site. I'm sorry man we can't really talk about the exam. I don't really mind what you said cause everyone knows there is an OSINT section and I think "bruteforcing has been no help" is not going to give any kind of hint to anybody haha. but please dont say more. I will give hints but like the most general freakin hints. I"m not really allowed to talk to anyone while they are taking the exam remember. Make a post about another cybersecurity related thing sometime soon! thanks good luck man you got this. My advice is not to give up although it might be looking bleak. you know listen to what everyone says in the videos i would say there is one common theme among all these pnpt videos, it is just to follow the main course carefully, maybe a little bit of the pen test playbook. Don't worry Earl lol you'll be alright!!!!!

I am on my second attempt for the PNPT and I'm still stuck at the OSINT section , brutefore has been of no help , can you please give me a hint or pathway to move forward

Wargames yeah i recently saw the beginning of it , i watched it as an older person so i found it kinda juvenile ha but nahh i get it def a classic. but this other movie seems interesting Sneakers im gonna check it out thank you. yeah I always thought the hacker genre has been a tad under-serviced when you compare to it a genre such as the gangster genre for instance which has been thoroughly explored i would say haha i mean there can always be another great one sure but. so i'm gonna start workin on writing the next one. i started but it stinks so far haha

One movie that I watched a real long time ago, was about penetration testing, it's called Sneakers. It has Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, and River Phoenix. It came out in 1992, and is the first movie I saw that talked about penetration testing. An even older hacking movie is WarGames, with a very young Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. That one came out in 1983. It's crazy to think that I've been exposed to hacking and computing for so long, yet it's only in the past two years that I've taken it seriously, and now I'm pursuing an ethical hacking career. Better late than never, huh.

Yes! i have been to bsides nyc twice. Sure , take a resume. Usually people are trading linkedins and stuff tho, but doesn't hurt to bring a resume in your backpack just in case. I don't know I would say, don't be afraid to talk to people. Um id say bring a laptop if you can, sometimes they have ctf events that you can participate in and you need a laptop for that. I don't know i would say try to be sociable, and if there is a girl there you think is cute, go talk to her and don't be such a desperate dan . In my experience bosses of cybersecurity companies really like it when you have found like a bug bounty on bugcrowd or hackerone. I'm about to post video 1 of this series. we will find our first bug together. Free video series. maybe you can get one before the conference and show off. I'm going to post video 1 on here soon, I'm making it as we speak. If you want to get a head start, create your account on Hacker One and BugCrowd. make your hacker alias, think of something fun

I will be going to BSides in Adelaide in May 2025. It will be my first time attending a Cybersecurity event and I'm nervous. Do I take a resume? I don't have any experience in a job role in Cybersecurity yet, as I only started studying Cybersecurity in Feb 2023, and got my Cert IV in Cybersecurity through TafeSA in July 2024. Since then I've been studying Ethical Hacking, through Hack The Box, Try Hack Me and then The Cyber Mentor, which introduced me to TCM Academy's Practical Ethical Hacking Course. I've done boxes on Hack The Box, Try Hack Me, and Proving Grounds. I thought I was ready for the PNPT exam. Ha. I'm on my third attempt, and even though I have made way more progress than the first two times, I still feel an idiot. Anyway, any advice for someone going to their first Cybersecurity Event?

the posts section itself is about to be way cooler, stay tuned, got some weird features i kinda think i might be the first to implement well see, also gonna implement video uploading so ill end up putting maybe my second half of the course here. Not to make money, just to build some traffic here.

haha thanks. unfortunately i took it down lol. gonna post the series again but a little more polished lol. Web app security stuff coming, deep dive. get ready. we are finding our first bugs on hacker one together.

So we are going to start by completing all 30 or so Portwisgger labs on XSS. XSS is a great place to start. Let's get really goot at it. So for today, lets do the first four portswigger labs on xss. And then we will complete the first module of the bug bounty job path on hack the box. the first module is easy, it's jsut about curl and a basic things about client / server model and all that stuff. Damn i kinda feel like doing the second module too. Lets do two. So remember, this is our two pronged attack. Hitting web app security from two different angles. HackTheBox AND Portswigger. ANd we can always add more. So remember,

so for the first three xss labs, watch the z3nsh3ll video for each one. And then try to do the lab yourself without looking at the solution. So in my video that i will soon post i might hit a few extra things like I might explain a few thing in even more detail or ya know ill teach something good in it promise. ANd just to prove to you that im keeping up with what i am saying so that we can all hold each other accountable. That i really went through 4 labs at understood them and yada yada yada.

So that’s a lot for our first day at this — 4 PortSwigger labs on XSS and the first two modules of the Hack The Box Bug Bounty Job Path. Ya know, just a bit for the first day. We will rev up as time goes by. I can't wait for all of us to make money.

Solid rant haha

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