CODENAME: Samurai Skills – Real World Penetration Testing Training[Ninja-Sec]

From :

http://www.darknet.org.uk/2012/05/codename-samurai-skills-real-world-penetration-testing-training/

The main focus of this course is to teach you the following skills:

Gather Information Intelligence
Find Web Applications and System Security Vulnerabilities
Scan Your Target Stealthily
Exploit Web Applications and System Vulnerabilites
Conduct Real World Client Side Attacks
Conduct Tactical Post Exploitation on Windows and Linux Systems
Develop Windows Exploits
They themselves consider this a medium level course and are promising to come out with a more advanced course soon. I consider this course a good introduction to pen testing or as a good supplement to other more hardcore courses (like OSCP).

There’s a fair mix of introductory material and slides + ample video which walks you through the slides and shows hands on demonstrations.

The course covers 8 modules:

Module 1:Solid Introduction to Penetration Testing
Module 2:Real World Information Intelligence Techniques
Module 3:Scanning and Vulnerability Assessment
Module 4:Network Attacking Techniques
Module 5:Windows – Unix Attacking Techniques
Module 6:Windows – Unix Post-exploitation Techniques
Module 7:Web Exploitation Techniques
Module 8:Windows Exploit Development
Each module contains a ‘book’ – which is basically a set of presentation slides and video content – the length of the video varies greatly between chapters (the shortest is the introduction at 35 minutes and the longest is almost 5 hours for module 7).

The presentation slides generally give some introductory material, then run through the relevant subject in a fair amount of depth.