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HackingSchool.com Hacker Course Review
  • Xin
    Posts: 3,251
    Site: http://hackingschool.com/
    Rating: http://www.iexploit.org/community/images/CoderGreen/star.pnghttp://www.iexploit.org/community/images/CoderGreen/star.png /5

    Pros:
    - Quite Cheap
    - Videos are clear

    Cons
    - Horribly buggy eLearning framework
    - Very outdated
    - Only covers a few topics


    Review:
    I bought this to see which bits i enjoyed and which i didnt look for advice on my upcoming courses, so i thought id write a review on it letting you know wheter to buy it or not.
    You download a .exe learning enviroment on which you can watch the videos and read the handbook on, it also comes with a .iso to practice them on. The learning framework was very very slow, and crashed a lot of times, it also will only run on windows.
    There are 18/19 videos to watch ranging from sniffing lans to buffer overflows, the video wastes a lot of time explaining how to install, configure and setup simple programs such as nessus and nmap which is a waste of time for most people. The subjects covered only go to very basic levels, and do not fully cover all the techniques in use. So dont expect to know everything after this.

    Overall i would not recommend this, the site overhypes it and really it is very out dated, and they are still running nmap 3.0 which is different to the current versions, the buffer overflow videos are a good watch but nothing you wont find anywhere else.
    Xin
  • Sh3llc0d3
    Posts: 1,910
    How to install NMAP! Oh my god. You should check out

    http://www.elearnsecurity.com/course/pe ... n_testing/

    Sign up for the free module, I think its on sql injecting, It's quite good. I was tempted to give it a bash.
  • Xin
    Posts: 3,251
    said:


    How to install NMAP! Oh my god. You should check out

    http://www.elearnsecurity.com/course/pe ... n_testing/

    Sign up for the free module, I think its on sql injecting, It's quite good. I was tempted to give it a bash.



    Yeah i already went through their SQLi module there using the same framework we are so ours will look almost identical, just different content, theres is quite expensive though and i think if i had the choice i would do offensive security one.
    Xin
  • Sh3llc0d3
    Posts: 1,910
    Yeah thats true, the OS courses aren't as expensive after the currency exchange, thought it'd be more lol. $ -> £ always confuses me.
  • Xin
    Posts: 3,251
    said:


    Yeah thats true, the OS courses aren't as expensive after the currency exchange, thought it'd be more lol. $ -> £ always confuses me.



    Yeah, still out of my price range unfortunately
    Xin