Mark A Nibert
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My name is Mark and I am new to the site. I will graduating with my Master's in Computer Science in June and I currently work for the Federal Government. I am very interested in transitioning my…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Mark A Nibert Feb 10, 2011.

 

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Mark A Nibert replied to Mark A Nibert's discussion 'Job Advice'
Sounds good, thank you for the quick replies. I will see what I can learn for BackTrack 4. I am in a ridiculously hard course for algorithms while I finish up my Master's so I have to keep what I learn simple or my brain may explode.
Feb 10, 2011
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Jayson E. Street replied to Mark A Nibert's discussion 'Job Advice'
AWESOME I am glad you liked it that made my day :-) thanks again for joining this community.
Feb 10, 2011
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Jayson E. Street replied to Mark A Nibert's discussion 'Job Advice'
I think the C|EH and SANS GSEC are both really good places to start. Full disclosure I work with both of them not referring them because it is businuess I do business with them because I think they're good. ;-)   I am still a noob when it…
Feb 10, 2011
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Mark A Nibert replied to Mark A Nibert's discussion 'Job Advice'
I just finished part 1 of Dissecting the Hack. I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it and it is definitely something I can see myself getting in to. I would consider myself a pretty smart guy so I am hoping to get to studying.  LinuxMint is…
Feb 9, 2011
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Mark A Nibert replied to Mark A Nibert's discussion 'Job Advice'
Thanks for the information. I am going to look in to all of that and see what I can dig up. Luckily I work for the DoD so I think I can take some classes here and hopefully transition it in to a job. I am working through Dissecting the Hack now and…
Feb 9, 2011
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Jayson E. Street replied to Mark A Nibert's discussion 'Job Advice'
Hiya Mark,   Thanks for posting glad you are here :-)   For books there are a lot of choices I would honestly start with places like the SANS reading room and other websites such as this that have security related post. Also being on…
Feb 9, 2011
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My name is Mark and I am new to the site. I will graduating with my Master's in Computer Science in June and I currently work for the Federal Government. I am very interested in transitioning my career in to Computer Security and have been interested in Ethical hacking, pen testing and what not. Since I am new and nt much of this is duscussed in grad school I am looking for some pointers on where to begin. Such as, good entry level books, software, best OS to use (I have Linux Mint at home now,…See More
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Is Open Proxy safe ??

Hi All,I am new to security and also new to linux ,i moved to a country for work ,but sadly this country has lot of filtering on web content and i end up disappointed when browsing net. So i decided to choose an open proxy to bypass my ISP  ,but i am little bit paranoid because i think i might end up using a fake proxy which can capture my traffic and i end up hacked. Also i could not r&d on this because most this proxy site lists are also blocked. So i need some help please.Could some one…See More
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Your argument is invalid! Cause I'll give you a hard time if you insist on it.

Today I read a blogpost by Fefe in which he rants about how folks just give up on trying to develop more secure code or even fix all bugs in their software but instead draw resources from bugfixing teams in benefit of building mitigations like sandboxing technologies. Fefe criticizes Adobe's security chief Arkin for saying the following sentence:“My goal isn’t to find and fix every security bug, I’d like to drive up the cost of…See More
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