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As the overpriced beers flowed and dusk approached in central London pubs surrounding the venue of RSA Europe last week, talk often turned towards the (ISC)2 security certification body.(ISC)2, which administers the widely recognised Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) qualification, was "a waste of money" and its board of directors "filled with a bunch of out-of-touch boobs" who are unaware of the practical issues in the working life of an infosec professional, we heard.Membership fees for the organisation are $85 a year. But what do the 80,000 (ISC)2 members get in return?A cursory search reveals that the beer-fuelled

So it’s National Security Awareness Month (a.k.a., NCSAM) … again… We’ve usually tried to come up with something interesting to say. Two years ago I was all oh ra for it… Then last year I touched on how not much had changed but closed with a rallying call.Well this year I’m just sort of tired of it. Yeah, I support the whole awareness thing but more and more it just seems to becoming sort of ho-hum for those of us in the security community … and I’m guessing the same for many non-security types as well. National Security Awareness Month was good in the beginning to get the ball rolling but now, personally, I think it’s kind of a waste. Maybe

I don't know why but powershell and meterpeter just dont play nice. Part of it is the whole interactive shell-ness of powershell. so if you just type "powershell" once you drop to a cmd.exe you wont ever get the powershell prompt. In a similar vain i've been unable to get any sort of combination of execute -f powershell.exe -a " blah blah" to work either.  If anyone has the magic syntax i know lots of people that would be interested. (actually carlos perez hooked me up...answer below) so, you can run powershell scripts via  bat files and those execute just fine from within cmd.exe or from the "execute" command OR the encoded command [command]

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