What do you guys think about pwn college?

I've been studying about cyber-security in pwn college, the courses are great and I'm learning a lot. I'm being introduced to the world of reverse engineering with assembly and other cool stuff The courses are free and supported by the Arizona State University, they offer an environment to learn with a VM, they made me discovered that I love assembly and the deeper side of computing Has anyone here heard about this or completed all the courses? If so, could share your experience-(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, You should always elaborate on your opinions rather than just spilling the soykaf. WHat have you learned most from the courses ? We don't know because you didn't elaborate.)

>>85147 Haven't heard of it but I'll give my opinion on these courses in general. These courses are nice and all but you need to find something that interests you, not just as a lesson. Try looking into your school's infrastructure for vulnerabilities, try cracking a game you like, list goes on. Speaking from my experience, these online courses start out fun but turn into a chore after some time. Don't push yourself too much and just have fun.

>>85152 >Try looking into your school's infrastructure for vulnerabilities, this is really bad advice. youre telling a total beginner to do something illegal on an institution with a lot of money and influence behind it. i dont disagree with trying real world scenarios, but probably pick a target with a bug bounty program, or some sort of consent. dont start fuarrrking around with your local university lol. or at least let them know that if anything they do has negative impact and it pisses off someone enough, they can actually be pursued legally for it i dont even mean be a user about it but people have been charged with computer crimes for minor things before

>>85169 Depends on where you live. In my country schools are absolute jokes and their systems are built horribly. When I was learning I went straight for university's servers and found massive vulnerabilities. But yeah, checking your country's laws is a good idea. I forgot about that since mine is a total soykafhole.

We just started solving those challenges on the /sec/'s CTF thread. Someone didn't check it. I'm finishing the Assembly crash course, and I can say that it made me learn assembly faster than any other tutorial, and they hit the sweet spot of being hard enough but not too hard. Come learn with us.

>>85147 i was impressed with the free browser based desktop environment and it seems good if you're not completely new to linux i did a couple of the labs but the platform seems a bit quirky >>85152 beginners should use a lab plenty of vulernable machines you can download

>>85147 Real hackers practice their 1337 skillz on .gov domains.

i'm too lazy to learn pwn. i'm good enough at breaking webshit and while binary exploitation always yields higher rewards, i can manage just fine, my teammates can solve them while i do something else

I think it's pretty good. I used it to learn some stuff, but I also used some other sources. >>85169 I agree with this comment. At some point after a lot of practice you have to move on from ctf, and there's alot of resource to learn pwn stuff. Do stuff that interests you but don't do illegal stuff as a beginner (or at all, save yourself some problem.) Cracking stuff will probably help you get better at reading and understanding assembly. I think once you know some basic asm and knowledge on specific architecture, all you'll need is probably a ref manual.