[Python or?]

Depends what you do in that year, if you write a script a day then you'll be a natural in it, if you write 1 script then you'll be rubbish.

When people ask about learning Linux I suggest deleting windows completely and just using Linux, you very quickly get the hang of it if using your machine every day. For development, if you look at everything you do and come up with ways to automate our improve then you should get good fairly quickly.

I wouldn't tie yourself to only one language and completely ignore others, each has its own quirks and will have things it does better or has better libraries for. Learn the concepts then pick the right language for the job.

great answer! thank you for the input

[Python or?]

I wouldn't argue for ruby, it is just less characters to type than Python.

And in answer to the question, of course you can play with multiple languages but be careful getting them mixed up. I mainly do ruby and find it hard switching to Python as it is so similar.

thank you!! yes of course i just want to trial one i find most comfortable.. after code academy i will pick one and stick with it for awhile..i heard to really challenge yourself and get the the most out of it try for 1 year minimum.

Appreciate the feedback

[Python or?]

Thank you all for your replies! yes i agree try what you like, and learn a language. which will help me learn how to learn a language for the future!

Ive decided to just go on code academy and start with python and work my way through their course. I have learn python the hard way 3rd edition, violent python, infiniteskills learn python programming videos for later.

would it be alright to try a few different languages after i complete them on individually on code academy?

like say the python course takes me a few weeks instead of diving in fully to a book or guide go directly to ruby and try that?

thanks for the help you guys :)

[Python or?]

I was wondering if the same principle of thumb applies to penetration testing as it does to language learning in general for a beginner.

Here is a nice article ive read covering the different languages and their uses in pen testing:http://www.picateshackz.com/2015/03/programming-languages-for-hackers-and.html

For a first language in general, i dont want to learn something i wont use or like in the application of security for pen testing.of course im sure a general handful of course have their place.

Considering:

Ruby/Python for now.

*I have some nice material for both but more for ruby atm.

Was wondering from those with expertise or experience as it applies to their work

[DoS Attack skype for business lecture?]

Even if you had permission to do this, you still wouldn't be able to like that for a number of reasons. The biggest one is you simply wouldn't have the bandwidth to pull it off.

Let's use myself as an example. I'm in a semi-urban area, and one of the residents of my house works for our ISP, so we get a pretty high tier for the area. (60mb down, ~6mbs up)

For someone to DoS you effectively using LOIC they would need to have an upload speed of around 60mbs. As you can see, that's usually not the case unless you're spending tons of money. If you had ten different computers in ten different locations, you'd have a much higher chance of knocking me offline and out of the call. (Ten different locations, because multiple computers dossing from the same network wouldn't be any different than just using one. In a lot of ways it would be even worse.) Keep in mind, this is only one person, not the entire group.

Adding a VPN to the mix would make things much worse in most cases, as it would even further limit your upload speed.

Also keep in mind that this is just generalized, sure your upload speed might be 6mbs, but I doubt 100% of that upload speed is just going to be used for the DoS. You've probably got tons of other devices sucking up your bandwidth, and then the network overhead itself.

This is why DDoS is so common. (Distributed). This is where you get multiple devices on different networks to do the DoS.

And as I mentioned before, I highly doubt you have permission to do this, so know that if you're going to try it anyways a vpn will not save you. If they really wanted to, a quick call to Hotspot Shield from your school, perhaps with the police involved, would provide them not only with your real IP, but also whatever information you used to sign up.

would HOIC be preferrable over LOIC then??

[DoS Attack skype for business lecture?]

Even if you had permission to do this, you still wouldn't be able to like that for a number of reasons. The biggest one is you simply wouldn't have the bandwidth to pull it off.

Let's use myself as an example. I'm in a semi-urban area, and one of the residents of my house works for our ISP, so we get a pretty high tier for the area. (60mb down, ~6mbs up)

For someone to DoS you effectively using LOIC they would need to have an upload speed of around 60mbs. As you can see, that's usually not the case unless you're spending tons of money. If you had ten different computers in ten different locations, you'd have a much higher chance of knocking me offline and out of the call. (Ten different locations, because multiple computers dossing from the same network wouldn't be any different than just using one. In a lot of ways it would be even worse.) Keep in mind, this is only one person, not the entire group.

Adding a VPN to the mix would make things much worse in most cases, as it would even further limit your upload speed.

Also keep in mind that this is just generalized, sure your upload speed might be 6mbs, but I doubt 100% of that upload speed is just going to be used for the DoS. You've probably got tons of other devices sucking up your bandwidth, and then the network overhead itself.

This is why DDoS is so common. (Distributed). This is where you get multiple devices on different networks to do the DoS.

And as I mentioned before, I highly doubt you have permission to do this, so know that if you're going to try it anyways a vpn will not save you. If they really wanted to, a quick call to Hotspot Shield from your school, perhaps with the police involved, would provide them not only with your real IP, but also whatever information you used to sign up.

thanks for the response man, i dont pay for hotspotshield elite, its torrented. yeah i figured that DDoS would be the way to go. and i actually do have the permission of one of my teachers, she doesnt like the other teacher that teaches with her hahah.

[DoS Attack skype for business lecture?]

Lets say hypothetically that i have a skype for business meeting lecture link, and everyone in my class including another teacher want me to DoS Attack the presentation can this be done using LOIC?

I would assume using hotspot shield elite first, and using 2 computers.

Computer A = the attacking computer with routed ip. Computer B = my true ip and logged in to the metting to avoid suspicion.

This is all hypothetical of course.