Offensive Security, together with BlackHat and HFC are organizing an amazing CTF on the 19th of June, 2010. Registration costs 49 $US, and all proceeds go to HFC. The prizes being offered are a BlackHat Conference Ticket, (Las Vegas 2010) for 1st place, and a CTP Online Course as the runner up. Registration is limited to the first 102 signups, and seats are running out fast! Register to the Cyber Hacking Challenge now!

The National Security Agency and the Central Security Service tested the five U.S. service academies during the 2009 Cyber Defense Exercise.Teams were tested on their ability to defend computer networks the students designed themselves. The winner took home the coveted CDX trophy. In an unclassified movie produced by the NSA, we caught a glimpse of BackTrack being used in the CyberDefence 2009 Wargames.



The Social-Engineering Toolkit (SET) was designed by David Kennedy (ReL1K) and incorporates many useful Social-Engineering attacks all in one simplistic interface. The main purpose of SET is to automate and improve on many of the social-engineering attacks out there. As pentesters, social-engineering is often a practice that not many people perform. A set of new set of videos called “Social Engineering Toolkit Training” has been made available – the pentesters choice for Client Side Attacks and other Social Engineering related attacks. Check them out here and here.

Taken directly from the social-engineer.org site:

The downloads of the latest release of the Social Engineering Toolkit has been truly remarkable.  The new additions to the tool are just amazing in itself.

Yet we get a lot of requests for tutorials and/or training on how to effectively use the tool.  We heard your cries for help and asked Dave to help us out.  Dave put together a series of training videos showing how to complete some of the main attacks with SET.

We then added a whole new section added to the resources page that is just for SET Tutorials.  Check it out and let us know what you think.