Ayoi's

Yeah, it is always delightful to be back home after leaving the family for some times. Only this time I only left my adorable twin and my daughters for a week because of attending a training but still it is hard to leave them behind.

It is raining cats and dogs before departure and yeah, I am nervous. (Damn that NGC’s Plane Crash Investigation series)

Up up and away… Where’s my house?

This is Singapore I guess

So far the journey to and from Singapore is fine (only 45 minutes and we only have this lil drink in flight). Initially we thought of buying some cigarettes in flight but alas of cause because of the short flight, there are ain’t any. And thankful for that as Singapore never allows any cigarettes to be brought into the country (besides the one that U have) and of cause chewing gum is a big NO NO in Singapore as well.

Despite for few SNAFU when we try to check in our hotel, everything were just fine. Like wifey said, the customer service is tip top here and it seems that Singaporean generally is very polite, helpful and talkative. No doubt about that (to some extent I do feel that in this sense they are better than us, Malaysian). Even though this country is not smoker friendly (and a pack of cigarettes will cost you around 11.60 Singapore Dollar, about 27 or 28 Ringgit Malaysia -based on 2.4 exchange rates). Yeah damn expensive.. But it does nothing to deter our smoking habits tho.. He he he.

A view from the smoking area.

A view from night time. Spot the difference. You see any? Yeah, nothing different besides now I am smoking the expensive cigarette.

Anyway even with that, the Hotel does provide some smoking area for us the smokers to enjoy our bad habits (this phrase uttered by one of the tourists from Cyprus) and I don’t think incidently they allocate the smoking space very near with the Lounge and Pubs nearby the Hotel. So while enjoying our bad habit, we also enjoy some “panoramic” views of miniskirts (yeah very very short mini skirts).

For my class, GCIH, there are not so many participant from Malaysia especially Malay (in fact I am the only Malaysian Malay) and I only have some brief chats with the person who sits right beside me in the class. Btw I think I spent most of my time during the exercises and Capture the Flags exercise on helping here to get things done and prepared. Well you can call me a very helpful guy (like my colleague always said, Org Malaysia memang bersopan santun). Surprisingly most of new friends that I made during the training period are from GCFA class, either from Brunei, Malaysia, or even Netherland. (Of cause business card exchange occurred )

Anyway, for my class, most of the topics and tools used are common and some of them are quite old but like my instructer said, even though some of the tools are old but the methodology and the techniques are recycleable. meaning the methods and the approach of the tools used will be innovated by new ones. Like BO2k? The granddaddy of all the bots nowadays? And yeah, our instructur, Mr John Strand is very knowledgeable in all the subjects covered in the GCIH class. New knowledge like LANMAN weak implementation (now I know why), why UNIX based systems implement ‘salt” in its passwords hashing and other things. Btw he is one of the professors at Denver University and you can’t be a professor if you know nothing.

p/s: Yeah, I remove my antivirus and disable my fw (or some of the tools will not working as it suppose to do especially the evergreen netcat. And yes, during the last day, I even saw some of the guys probing my machines notty notty..

I have to admit, GCIA is more suitable for me but hey, even though I spent most of my time in Blue Team, but it is very beneficial for me to know the techniques, methodology that the Red Team used for a change. Btw how can you defend when you don’t know the attack methodology. True?

What is next? I will definitely try to implement and make use all the knowledge that I gained during the course. And perhaps maybe I might sometimes pursue the 560 course (penetration testing) in the future.

For time being, it is better for me to complete my Assembly reading. It will make Buffer Overflow much more fun.

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