My GORUCK GR1 and MacBook Air 11"

Quick and dirty

Sometimes you get in and have no time to do anything, you thought you had the time to get to that server room, to that manager's office. You open your laptop on the floor, connect to that wireless you just cracked and install your backdoor. Then you vanish.

Quick and dirty: in, install, out.

The hole in the wall

One of the classic security tests is the hole in the wall. Basically you try to penetrate the premises of your customer, find an ethernet plug and you connect your computer. If the ethernet connection is hot then you try to find what you can do: are you connected to a network? Do you have a valid IP? Can you see other computers? Etc. If the plug is cold you move to the next one.Read More