Digital Operatives Professional Training Courses...

Successful hackers must continuously learn and adapt to ever evolving and multi-faceted challenges presented by a changing technology landscape.  Hacking and computer security courses are traditionally offered at hacking conferences, and individuals fly early to conferences to take relevant courses.  This model is expensive for companies wanting to stay on the bleeding edge, desiring to train all professionals on staff.  In hard economic times, budgets are constrained, and it may be unrealistic for a company to send 12 people to a remote conference for training when you include airfare and hotels.

To help our fellow industry professionals and hackers alike, Digital Operatives has developed a suite of courses that can be taught at any location.  We are able to travel to your facilities as long as you can provide the basic requirements for the course.  Our courses are designed to be both fun and informative in order to keep the attention of students.  Our classes typically end on the final day with some form of a competition that covers materials learned.

Classes Offered:

• Security 101: Through the eyes of hackers
• Hacker Scripting: The Python Way
• Advanced Cyber Trade-craft and Reverse Engineering
• Fuzzer Development and Vulnerability Discovery
• Advanced Vulnerability Research and Exploit Development
• Computer Security for Lawyers: Protecting your clients information
• Hands On Privacy Management

We can develop custom courses tailored directly to your company's needs.

If you're interested in learning more contact us at: contact@digitaloperatives.com

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Once upon a time there were Bell Labs...

Today is another step closer to the end of an era for the old AT&T Bell Labs (now called AT&T Labs). Our estimated colleague David Korn (inventor of the famous Korn Shell - ksh) is leaving the labs, and he sent us the following farewell message in a form of (what else?) a Korn Shell script:

cd /tmp
if [[ $(print hello) != hello ]] 2> /dev/null
then echo 'You should use ksh'
 alias print=echo
fi
trap 'rm mvs2*' EXIT
trap 'print "$year: dgk raptured to dgk@xxxxxxxxx"' TERM
for x in 76 78 80 81 83 86 87 88 89 90 91 93 95 99 100 103 107 108 110 112 113
do case $((year=1900+x)) in
 1976) print "$year: Hello Bell Telephone Labs, Holmdel; Goodbye NYU";;
 1978) print "$year: create 'formshell' for RBCS from Bourne shell";;
 1980) print "$year: leave Bell Telephone Labs and return to NYU";;
 1981) print "$year: return to Bell Telephone Labs Murray Hill Bldg 5"
  print "$year: meet erg north dgb and kpv";;
 1983) print "$year: first version of ksh with editing and job control";
  print "$year: dgb becomes my supervisor"
  print "$year: UNIX for apollo with erg and ed fisher";;
 1986) print "$year: compete with kpv for best malloc library";;
 1987) print "$year: win best one liner in obfuscated C contest"
  print "$year: began long and continuing collaboration with gsf";;
 1988) print "$year: KornShell 88 book published";;
 1989) print "$year: 3d file system with gsf and ekrell";;
 1990) print "$year: sfio with kpv";;
 1991) print "$year: begin ast library with gsf";;
 1993) print "$year: first version of ksh93";;
 1995) print "$year: 1993 KornShell book published"
  print "$year: first version of UWIN"
  print "$year: Bell Labs split to AT&T Labs and Lucent";;
 1997) print "$year: move to Florham Park";;
 1999) print "$year: y2k testing software created";;
 2000)  print "$year: ast software becomes self documenting";;
 2003) > mvs2pc; print "$year: create mvs2pc";;
 2007) print "$year: Universal Biller invoicing runs with msv2pc";;
 2008) print "$year: UWIN merged into VizGems written in ksh by Dr. ek"
  print "$year: merged mfcobol compiler into mvs2pc";;
 2010) print "$year: distributed shell using coshell";;
 2012) mv mvs2pc mvs2cloud; print "$year: rename mvs2pc to mvs2cloud";;
 2013) kill -TERM $$;;
 esac
done
exit

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