It's the last night we went in to hopefully, as I showed you, a bunch of cool resources and building
on up page.
Now I just want to take a step back and share our story.
How did I get.
Waiting at the Black Joe got into.
Right now, for me, my story's a little bit different, I think everybody stories, but for me it all
started with AOL, OK?
And really before that AOL, I mean, America Online.
This is back in the early 90s.
But, you know, I was actually going to go into art right after I have an art attention park.
That's my thing.
I like drawing like, you know, paint.
I used to watch what was all that cool stuff, but my dad was like, hey, if art can only get you so
far and I don't want you to be a starving artist.
So here's a computer book.
And he threw me a C++ textbook that was like 600 pages back.
I mean, because Deuch so, you know, I didn't know what to do.
So I just read the whole book.
And, you know, once I got through with it, it was time to plan for college.
And I applied for college and decided to major in computer science because that's all I knew.
That's what I thought I was supposed to do.
So I got into computer science and it wasn't really anything to do with side versus generic computer
science.
But I had an emphasis on networking in telecommunications because I thought that was fun.
It was cool to get a computer.
You see the data and how it flows in and out.
So and plus, you know, I always kind of had a technical affinity for tech.
So, you know, it wasn't too difficult for me to make the transition from art into computers.
But then, you know, when I started messing with computers, something interesting happened to me because,
wow, what else?
I got hacked.
You see, I used to go to these things to go to these classrooms with his classroom, these chatrooms
and in these chat rooms.
I would, you know, talk to people.
People would go out these things called punter's.
We could kick people out of chat rooms and can a bunch of text chat rooms called, oh, scroller and
warez was really big or just sort of like a legal software.
And so, you know, I got an email one day from someone who said, hey, here's the newest.
Here's some software that you might like what it was.
But, you know, I downloaded it not realizing it was a virus.
And it wasn't until a few days later when I realized that I actually got hold.
Pond is basically when you've gotten hacked, that's what happened to me, because this software that
was masquerading as normal software was actually the sub seven, sub seven Trojan, and the attacker
had complete control of my system.
And was essentially spying on me, recording my keystrokes, one day, a window popped up on my screen
and he basically said, hey, this is your password, right?
I mean, imagine that he that's basically what happened.
And so I ended up talking to the attacker and, you know, I I asked him like, hey, you know, what's
going on, how to do this and do that dialogue.
I learned about this tool called subsetting, and that's how I got into the hacking scene.
Now, of course, I didn't immediately transition into a full time career of cyber.
You know, I was, you know, working in the university, fixing computers, resetting passwords and
stuff like printers, a bunch of stuff that I really hated, I hated with a passion.
But the transition from traditional IT to cyber was kind of difficult.
And it really for me, I'm a Christian, so it came down to pray a lot.
And in addition to that, the Lord was able to connect a relationship with my wife's friend who happened
to work at a large consulting company, major cyber consulting company.
And he was able to sort of guide me or or mentor me and help me to get the skills I needed to get into
this field.
So I say all this just let you guys know anybody can get into ethical hacking.
If you come from an accounting background, if you come from, you know, a medical background doesn't
really matter as long as you have a passion and a desire to learn, you can do this.
All right.
It's really it's really that straightforward.
So I hope that provides some inspiration and some motivation for you guys.
In the next lecture, we're going to dig into the miter tech methodology and explain everything, what
that is and why it is so awesome.
I will see you in the next lecture.