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233. Remote Access Tools (OBJ 5.3) In this lesson, we are going to discuss the remote access tools that are covered by the exam. Now, when we talk about remote access tools, we’re talking about tools that are used to give an attacker full control of a workstation, server, or other device remotely over the […]

230. Networking Tools (OBJ 5.3) In this lesson, we’re going to briefly cover the different networking tools that you need to know for the exam. Now, networking tools are used to monitor, analyze, or modify network traffic on a given network. This includes tools like Wireshark, tcpdump, and hping. First, we have Wireshark, which is […]

227. Tool Round-up (OBJ 5.3) In this section of the course, we’re going to perform a quick review and summary of all the different tools that are covered on the PenTest Plus exam. Now we’ve already covered a lot, if not all of these tools during our time together, but for the sake of completeness, […]

223. Exploits for Enumerating Users (OBJ 5.2) In this lesson, we’re going to talk about exploits for enumerating users in a couple of different languages. First, we have PowerShell. If you want to list all the users in a domain, you can simply use this command on one line; Import-Module ActiveDirectory; Get-ADUser-Identity <username>-properties*. This’ll return […]

220. Exploits and Automation (OBJ 5.2) In this section of the course, we’re going to discuss some different exploits and automations that you can perform using scripting and programming language code during your engagements. Now, as we move throughout this section, we’re going to continue looking at the Fifth Domain for our exam, which is […]

216. Coding in JavaScript (OBJ 5.2) In this lesson, we’re going to talk about coding in JavaScript. JavaScript is a truly powerful programming language, that can add interactivity to a website. JavaScript is a relatively compact and flexible language, but programmers have created a lot of different tools, on top of the core JavaScript language, […]

213. Python Example (OBJ 5.2) This time, we’re going to look at a Python script. So here on the screen, you’ll see the Python script. Now again, on the exam, they’re not going to tell you it’s a Python script, they’re going to expect you to be able to figure that out. Now, what are […]

210. Coding in PowerShell (OBJ 5.2) In this lesson, we’re going to take a look at how you can do coding inside of PowerShell. First, let’s talk about commenting your code. Just like we did in Bash, we can use the hashtag to comment a line of code. So if I use hashtag, This is […]

207. Analyzing Scripts (OBJ 5.2) In the last section of the course, we focused on learning the basics of scripting and programming languages by understanding variables, loops, logic control structures, data structures, and some object-oriented programming concepts using pseudocode. Now, in this section of the course, we’re going to focus on some real world scripting […]

203. Loops (OBJ 5.1) In this lesson, we’re going to talk about loops. Loops are one type of flow control that allows you to be able to control which order the code is going to be executed in a given program. For example, if I wanted to run a piece of code 10 different times, […]