offsec tagged posts

the reason why I’m writing this post is due to the lack of reviews I found online about AWE course offered by offensive security. If you look up for OSCP or OSCE they are plenty but not so much for OSEE/AWE. If there is something I learned from hacking cons is that you can contribute to the infosec world by creating any kind of helpful material for other people (refer to the hacker manifesto); hence I decided to contribute to the infosec world in my own way too.

a little background:
To be honest it took me quite some energy and time to even get into this course due to its high demand and lack of availability. Fast forward I was sitting with almost other 30 students in Blackhat 2018 fronted by the offsec staff to teach us some exploitation black magic; and oh boy was it black magic…

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Wait; did I say BackTrack? Yes Backtrack is still a cool (outdated) distro for hacking!
If for some odd reasons you still need to use BackTrack in 2017 (hello? have you heard of Kali), I won’t judge you.
Maybe you’re doing your OSCE and need an image that is still in the course / labs

This post is meant to save you some time if you haven’t used BackTrack for a while and need to get some things done with it.

1. We want to change the root password