Find an IT Security Jobs
July 8, 2010
So do you have any suggestions for someone starting out in IT Security? What certifications, knowledge, training, forums, do you suggest? They will pay for the A+ cert, Network + and Security + certification. Do you have any suggestions for someone just starting out in security? After CompTia what should I focus on. Although I’m not sure yet of my final career goals, I’d like to first get a job very quickly in IT security, hopefully with the government, state, or any local government; when I say quick I mean within the next few weeks Thanks Rob for whatever info you can suggest
Hello,
If you want a job fast I would suggest checking out simplyhired.com. I would also put my resume out on Monster.com, if you have not already done so. If you want a security job the security+ is the way to go, but also consider doing a search on monster and simplyhired to look at the skills and certifications that employers are looking for. Pay particular attension to keywords and phrases that they are using. You will know the keywords/phrase because they are repeated in nearly every resume for your chosen career path and/or job title.
How I get Jobs Fast
For example, in my career “system security engineer” and “information security officer” I see the following keywords/phrases over and over: security clearance, cissp, 8500, diacap. If noticed that when I have these keywords on my resume, I get calls almost DAILY from all over the US. Here is how you can do the same:
1) Find a good job title that fits what you do or what you want to do
2) Do a search for that job title [use google, simplyhired.com, monster.com, dice.com or any other search engine/job database]
– Read through the job results and try to find keywords/phrases that seem to be in most or all of the jobs listed
3) Try to get as many of the applicable keywords/phrases in your resume
– Either have the skills required for the chosen job title or begin working toward them
– I am not suggesting that you put lies on your resume, you’ll have to look for job titles that you have experience & skills in
– Don’t mess with stuff that completely out of your league or level of expertise, be honest on your resume
– Sometimes employers will take you if you are willing to learn the skills or earn the require certification/degree in a certain time frame. Put that on your resume.
4) Put your resume [with keywords/phrases in place] online, as many places as you can
Research Employer Demand in certain locations
I am from California and I have been trying for years to find a decent job (for what I do) there. They’ve got them in southern California but almost none in Northern. California seems to be lacking jobs and then they don’t want to pay comparable to the cost of living there. I noticed that Cali has a LOT of networking jobs. If you type in CCNP in simplyhired.com for Cali, you’ll find a lot of good paying jobs. The problem is that CCNP is a very difficult certification to get (or so I’ve heard).
I would recommend checking out what sort of IT skills employers are looking for in the area you want to work. For example, even though I have lots of certifications, most of the ones that I have [that are still active lol] won’t help me for moving back to Northern California. I researched it and found that they are mostly looking for Network Engineers [as of 2006-2010] and my Cisco routing and switching skills are still developing.
Play Capitalisms Game: Start a Business
Another option is to start your own business. This may sound daunting, but believe it or not my website elamb.org qualifies as a business. It took me about 1 year to get it making money, but now it makes between $400 – 800/month without me even looking at it. It has made as much as 2k and I know people who make more in a month then many people make in a year with their blogs. It is becoming harder and harder to be an employee. Companies do the bare minimum to take care of employees, the economy goes in a recession (or worse) and hard working people can not find a job and the value of the dollar flutuates on a downward spiral. It seems the only way to be comfortable in this new “capitalism” is to have multiple streams of income.
If you are interested, start at your states business page and here
Thanks,
Rob E.
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6v Battery Hack – WE’RE CUTTING PRICES IN HALFF!!
May 5, 2008
Gag Films has a great idea to get cheaper batteries. Get a 6v Lantern Battery (about $6), Take the label off, Pop the top, disconnect the wires. And you’ll find 32 AA batteries.
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unixwiz: SQL Injection Attacks by Example
October 3, 2007
Found this site via del.icio.us. Pretty good post:
“SQL Injection” is subset of the an unverified/unsanitized user input vulnerability (”buffer overflows” are a different subset), and the idea is to convince the application to run SQL code that was not intended. If the application is creating SQL strings naively on the fly and then running them, it’s straightforward to create some real surprises.
SQL Injection @ unixwiz
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Hacking World of Worldcraft
June 27, 2007
Social Engineering a N00b Party
I had a level 11 Mage. My level 20 friend (who happened to be female) was teaching me how to play the game. Some level 43 guy started hitting on my escort. Feeling playful, I challenged him to a duel. He turned his back on me while I threw blows for like 10 minutes and had no effect.
One spell did work though, Polymorph (only for about 5 seconds though). I turned him into a sheep. This must have really pissed him off because what he did next was devious.
He finally finished me off and then quickly made friends with our two person party. He hung out with us for a little while, the whole time flirting with my friend. Then he told her that I was talking shit about her to him on whisper mode. Not true at all. But worked. She got really mad and disband from the party.
He tried to do other stuff to my character but I was just a trial account so all he had left to do was laugh at me: “Ha Ha I just scored with your friend.”
Here is a pretty good article addressing some cool hacks (cheats) that have been done on WoW. The article is on theRegister and its called, Hacking WoW and the pursuit of knowledge
change a character’s X, Y and Z coordinates to give the illusion of flying or move to a more advantageous location
Automated Spawn Camping – code to automate a character’s task of camping outside a cave in wait of monsters and stabbing them when they appear. A player who runs the bot shortly before going to bed can awake to find the character has pocketed plenty of gold left behind by the felled beasts.
Create bot characters that can send you IMs to your cell phone
*atchung: some hacks such “spawn camping” will get you labeled a filthy cheater, a taboo as untouchable in the world of online gaming as a pedophile or 18th century horse thief. hack at your own filty risk.
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Troubles with video
June 17, 2007
I’ve had trouble with getting video on my blog until now. If you’re having problems check out Jack Humphrey’s video about the subject.
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Hacking Blogger Beta: Building a Three Column Template, Removing the Navbar
January 23, 2007
Looking for a three column Blogger Beta template? Looking to remove the Blogger Navbar? Looking to add a picture to your header? Then look no further! This article explains step by step how to do it all. Includes download links to ready-made templates.
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putting music on myspace
January 21, 2007
There are several ways to put music on your myspace page. The easiest way is to do a myspace search for your favorite songs/artists and click the add button on there song:
Another method is to use a third party tool such as IMEEM.
IMEEM is an online community where people and groups can upload, share, tag, and playlist the media they care about.
more on putting music on myspace here.
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Prevent Computer Viruses
December 26, 2006
In the last three years or so I haven’t had a single computer virus on my main system unless I put it there on purpose. I use a very simple method to prevent computer viruses and malware from ever getting on my system.
check it out here: http://elamb.org/hacked/how-to-prevent-computer-virus.htm
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Howto Say the IPV6 Number
December 12, 2006
If you didn’t know, IPv4, the current network layer protocol used on the Internet is due to be replace with a new networking protocol called IPv6. IPv4 is a 32-bit addressing scheme that allows 4,294,967,296 possible unique addresses. IPv6 is a 128-bit addressing scheme that allows much more.
This is the number of possible IPv6 numbers that are possible:
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
And here is how to say the number.
340- undecillion
282- decillion
366- nonillion
920- octillion
938- septillion
463- sextillion
463- quintillion
374- quadrillion
607- trillion
431- billion
768- million
211- thousand
456
HOW BIG IS THAT REALLY??!
2^128=340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 = 3.4×10^38
– 50 octillion addresses for each of the 6.5 Billion people on earth
– Every atom in the human body could have IPv6 address
– Windshield wipers on your car may have and IPv6 address (every device can be “pingable”)
Pros and Cons of IPv6:
CON
• Lack of migration plan
• Definition of “compliance”? (dod)
• Long address (2001:0000:1080:8c88:8:800:200C:417A)
• Security issues
• No tools to check IPv6 packets, so this exploit has no way to be stopped yet
– Windows XP supports IPv6 but the SP2 firewall would not detect rogue data inside ICMPv6 packets
PRO
• ipv6 for everything
• Japan already on top of it
• Help countries like China and India
Here are some other interesting numbers:
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Create a Template for PowerPoint 2003
November 15, 2006
To create a PowerPoint template in Office PowerPoint 2003 go to View | Master | and select Slide Master
Once in Slide Master you will see a small menu, Slide Master View, that will allow you to create a Title Slide. The Slide Master View will allow you to do the following:
Insert New Slide Master, Insert New Title Master, Delete Master, Preserve Master, Rename Master, Master Layout and Close the Slide Master
see more on how to create a template for powerpoint 2003 here.
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