DefCON NOP Redux

[Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>]

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So lots of people came to take the NOP test - almost everyone passed, 
which was surprising. The average time to complete the exercise out of 
the 26 people who took it was 32 minutes. This, of course, is a lot less 
than the 2 hours that Microsoft quoted for the CANVAS Early Release of 
MS08-025, which is what I hear they said catalyzed movement on some of 
their new programs. You can read about these programs here (blackhat 
slides are not up yet, to my knowledge):
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/blackhat/materials.mspx

Regardless, there's clearly lots of interest in a hands-on-exploitation 
certification. I find it's especially good for people who for whatever 
reason cannot fill out their skills on their resume.

One thing that was interesting this year at Defcon was CTF, which was a 
bit of a blowout, even though the game itself was reasonably fair and 
there were lots of good teams competing. At some point it would be cool 
if school of root (the winning team) posted how they did it.

- -dave


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