The British Special Air Service (SAS) have a motto that’s rather fitting for their line of work – Who Dares Wins

To a degree, the same could be said for our newly updated Hacking by Numbers course, Combat. Penetration testing is sometimes more than following a checklist or going for the easy kill. A good penetration tester knows how to handle all thrown at them, be it a Joomla implementation, or *shudder* an OpenBSD box.

What does prevail in these situations is very much a ‘Who Dares Wins’ attitude. Sure, you could just give up, report that the box is vulnerable to predictable TCP sequence numbers, issue the PDF and move on, right?

Thought not.

If you are like us, the above situation would drive you potty and you’d end up looking for other ways to obtain maximum pwnage. Thankfully help is at hand. Our newly updated Combat course aims to help you, the penetration tester, learn how to tackle these obstacles.

Using an approach similar to capturing the flag, we take you through a whole host of obstacles that you might find during a career in pwnage. This isn’t a simple SQLi in a login form, or a basic file upload vuln exploitation class, but one that gets the creative juices flowing. From chaining low/medium vulnerabilities, to exploiting logic flaws, over the two days, you will be pushed on all seven layers.

The solutions lie much more in technique and an out-of-box thought process than in the use of scripts or tools. Each exercise is designed to teach a specific lesson and is discussed in detail upon completion with the group.

If you are looking at polishing up your pwnage skills, learning how to tackle CTF competitions like the infamous Defcon one, then this is for you.

We don’t offer this course frequently, but this year we will be offering it at the amazing Hack In The Box in Amsterdam on the 27th May AND at Blackhat USA‘s new home at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on the 4th August