I've not long got in from work (the new job i mentioned in previous posts), its going well incidently, i like the people i'm working with and the job seems interesting which is always a start :)
Anyway, because i haven't posted in a while i guess, tonight is a little bit of a catch up before i go to bed because ya know, work. (not missing the student life yet but the early nights are killing me!)
Today, i'm gonna catch you guys up on IT security site that a friend recommended to me which will teach you vital skills for computing, if your into that sort of thing of course.
So firstly, the site is http://securityoverride.org/news.php
And you need to set yourself up with an account obviously, once your all logged in and whatnot. We progress to the challenges that i'm working my merry way through.
We kick today off with Level 1 of Reconnaissance, which the challenge is to find out the IP address of Security Override.
We could cheat but the aim of this site is to provide you with the skills to do this properly, so we open Command Prompt.
FYI: i'm sure we all know how to do that, if not.....Well then, there's no time like the present to find it!
So now you see what i see.
To do this, we kick off with pinging the website address.
For those that don't know what pinging is, its when you tell your computer to send packets of data to a specific place (its also a good way to check whether your internet is busted). Packets, are what the data is sent in, the packets contain information that tell the data where to go. (for more detail, google it lazy!)
Back to the challenge, to find out the IP address we type in:
ping www.securityoverride.org
This command brings back the results that securityoverride.org has the IP address: 206.214.216.120
We enter this into the level 1 box and.......
Woo! Its right!
Onto the next post!!
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