IT Systems, Networks, Security and Education
I’ve been trying to bring “hacker” training to UNM for over ten years without much success. Only in the past two semesters have I been able to run an Ethical Hacking class based on the CEH, but where my past efforts didn’t bring students, the CEH did. Red Team work has long interested me, likely …
This is post 3 of 3 in the series “[ How to Teach Hacker Highschool ]” This is the third unit of my course for teachers, which brings together a lot of material I generated while working as Project Manager for the Hacker Highschool v2 Rewrite Project, 2012-2016. This session offers some hints on conducting …
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This is post 2 of 3 in the series “[ How to Teach Hacker Highschool ]” This is the second unit of my course for teachers, which brings together a lot of material I generated while working as Project Manager for the Hacker Highschool v2 Rewrite Project, 2012-2016. This session discusses some of the issues …
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This is post 4 of 4 in the series “[ Hacker Highschool ]” This was a fun little gig: “[Fox Interviewer” Nikki is joined by Glenn Norman, a Security Consultant, Teacher and Project Manager for Hacker High School, to discuss the innovative teaching method to teach security awareness and how it came to be.” FOX …
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I’ve been trying for some seven years to get the University of New Mexico to let me start offering hard-core cyber-security (i.e. hacking) certification courses, without even a whiff of success until recently. The Marketing Department and Custom Training division surveyed our captive audience, which is pretty sizable: Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Labs, …
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This is post 3 of 4 in the series “[ Hacker Highschool ]” Here are the lessons I produced as a contributor and Project Manager of Hacker Highschool, 2012-2016, complete and uncut, with the names of all contributors intact. These lessons are distributed under the Creative Commons 3.0 License. Parts of these lessons are Copyright …
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Flash forward from my first conversations on LinkedIn with Pete Herzog in 2010 to February of 2015, and one of the most persistent topics about Hacker Highschool: Should we be doing what we were doing at all? Were we training evil little script-kiddies, or maybe al-Qaida? That whole line of thinking leads straight back to …
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This is post 2 of 4 in the series “[ Hacker Highschool ]” I first started talking with Pete Herzog through LinkedIn in 2010. His pocket institute, ISECOM, had produced some really interesting material, including the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM) and Hacker Highschool (HHS). Lots of his ideas were great, but wrapped …
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This is post 1 of 4 in the series “[ Hacker Highschool ]” Foreword From Glenn Norman, Project Manager, 2012-1016 Downloads: http://gnorman.org/2017/05/16/hacker-highschool-download-uncut-lessons/ As I’ve described in an earlier entry, I first got in touch with Pete Herzog and ISECOM (http://isecom.org) in 2010 through LinkedIn because, as a professional editor, I thought I could make a …
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