The Exploit Laboratory class at BlackHat Training was great.
If you want to bump up your exploit writing skills – Saumil Udayan Shah is an excellent teacher. His style of teaching brought out memories of my time as an ECE student at CU, Boulder. He presented very clearly, kept the pace moving, and quipped often. Great class.
The majority of time is spent on using GDB and WinDBG to inspect Intel 32-bit x86 CPU registers for opportunities. The end game was always accompanied by netcat and metasploit (along with a decent amount of scripting to facilitate quick retries when trying to line up all the exploit code to ensure success).
Here is the full class description: http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-06/train-bh-us-06-ss-el.html
