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Table of Contents

• Learning the Skills
• YouTube Channels
  • Companies
  • Conferences
  • NEWS
• Sharpening Your Skills
• Reverse Engineering, Buffer Overflow and Exploit Development
• Privilege Escalation
• Network Scanning / Reconnaissance
• Malware Analysis
• Vulnerable Web Application
• Vulnerable OS
• Exploits
• Forums
• Archived Security Conference Videos
• Online Communities
• Online News Sources
• Linux Penetration Testing OS

Learning the Skills

• Free interactive labs with White Hat Academy - 32 labs, easy account sign in with github credentials
• Learning Exploitation with Offensive Computer Security 2.0 - blog-style instruction, includes: slides, videos, homework, discussion. No login required.
• Cybrary - coursera style website, lots of user-contributed content, account required, content can be filtered by experience level
• OffensiveComputerSecurity - academic content, full semester course including 27 lecture videos with slides and assign readings
• CS 642: Intro to Computer Security - academic content, full semester course, includes assigned readings, homework and github refs for exploit examples. NO VIDEO LECTURES.
• Free cyber security training - Academic content, 8 full courses with videos from a quirky instructor sam, links to research, defcon materials and other recommended training/learning
• SecurityTube - tube-styled content, "megaprimer" videos covering various topics, no readable content on site.
• Seed Labs - academic content, well organized, featuring lab videos, tasks, needed code files, and recommended readings
• Hak5 - podcast-style videos covering various topics, has a forum, "metasploit-minute" video series could be useful
• OWASP top 10 web security risks - free courseware, requires account
• MIT OCW 6.858 Computer Systems Security - academic content, well organized, full-semester course, includes assigned readings, lectures, videos, required lab files.

YouTube Channels

• OWASP - see OWASP above
• Hak5 - see Hak5 above
• BlackHat - features talks from the BlackHat conferences around the world
• Christiaan008 - hosts a variety of videos on various security topics, disorganized
• Companies
  • 0patch by ACROS Security - few videos, very short, specific to 0patch
  • Detectify - very short videos, aimed at showing how to use Detictify scanner
  • Kaspersky Lab - lots of Kaspersky promos, some hidden cybersecurity gems
  • Metasploit - collection of medium length metasploit demos, ~25minutes each, instructional
  • OpenNSM - network analysis, lots of TCPDUMP videos, instructional,
  • Rapid7 - brief videos, promotional/instructional, ~ 5 minutes
  • Securelist - brief videos, interviews discussing various cyber security topics
  • Segment Security - promo videos, non-instructional
  • SocialEngineerOrg - podcast-style, instructional, lengthy content ~1 hr each
  • Sonatype - lots of random videos, a good cluster of DevOps related content, large range of lengths, disorganized
  • SophosLabs - lots of brief, news-style content, "7 Deadly IT Sins" segment is of note
  • Sourcefire - lots of brief videos covering topics like botnets, DDoS ~5 minutes each
  • Station X - handful of brief videos, disorganized, unscheduled content updates
  • Synack - random, news-style videos, disorganized, non-instructional
  • TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative - very brief videos ~30 sec, somewhat instructional
  • Tripwire, Inc. - some tripwire demos, and random news-style videos, non-instructional
  • Vincent Yiu - handful of videos from a single hacker, instructional
  • nVisium - Some nVisum promos, a handful of instructional series on Rails vulns and web hacking
  • ntop - network monitoring, packet analysis, instructional
• Conferences
  • 44contv - information security con based in London, lengthy instructional videos
  • BruCON Security Conference - security and hacker conference based in b\Belgium, lots of lengthy instructinoal videos
  • BSides Manchester - security and hacker con based in Mancheseter, lots of lengthy videos
  • BSidesAugusta - security con based in Augusta, Georgia, lots of lengthy instructional videos
  • CarolinaCon - security con based in North Carolina, associated with various 2600 chapters, lots of lengthy instructional content
  • Cort Johnson - a handful of lengthy con-style talks from Hack Secure Opensec 2017
  • DevSecCon - lenghty con videos covering DevSecOps, making software more secure
  • Garage4Hackers - Information Security - a handful of lengthy videos, About section lacks description
  • HACKADAY - lots of random tech content, not strictly infosec, some instructional
  • Hack In The Box Security Conference - lengthy con-style instructional talks from an international security con
  • Hack in Paris - security con based in paris, features lots of instructional talks, slides can be difficult to see.
  • Hacklu - lots of lengthy con-style instructional videos
  • Hacktivity - lots of lengthy con-style instructional videos from a con in central/eastern europe
  • Hardwear.io - handful of lengthy con-style video, emphasis on hardware hacks
  • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy - content from the symposium; IEEE is a professional association based in the us, they also publish various journals
  • LASCON - lengthy con-style talks from an OWASP con held in Austin, TX
  • Marcus Niemietz - lots of instructional content, associated with HACKPRA, an offensive security course from an institute in Germany
  • Media.ccc.de - The real official channel of the chaos computer club, operated by the CCC VOC - tons of lengthy con-style vids
  • NorthSec - lengthy con-style talks from an applied security conference in Canada
  • Pancake Nopcode - channel of Radare2 whiz Sergi "pancake" Alvarez, Reverse Engineering Content
  • Psiinon - medium length instructional videos, for the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy
  • SJSU Infosec - handful of lengthy instructional videos from San Jose State university Infosec
  • Secappdev.org - tons of lengthy instructional lectures on Secure App Development
  • Security Fest - medium length con-style talks from a security festival in Sweden
  • SecurityTubeCons - an assortment of con-style talks from various cons including BlackHat and Shmoocon
  • ToorCon - handful of medium length con videos from con based in San Diego, CA
  • USENIX Enigma Conference - medium length "round table discussion with leading experts", content starts in 2016
• NEWS
  • Corey Nachreiner - security newsbites, 2.7K subscribers, 2-3 videos a week, no set schedule
  • Error 404 Cyber News - short screen-shot videos with loud metal, no dialog, bi-weekly
  • Latest Hacking News - 10K followers, medium length screenshot videos, no recent releases
  • Pentester Academy TV - lots of brief videos, very regular posting, up to +8 a week
  • SecureNinjaTV - brief news bites, irregular posting, 18K followers
  • Troy Hunt - lone youtuber, medium length news videos, 16K followers, regular content
• Samy Kamkar's Applied Hacking - brief to medium length instructional vids from the creator of PoisonTap for the Raspberry Pi Zero, no recent content, last updated in 2016
• danooct1 - lots of brief screenshot, how-to vids regarding malware, regular content updates, 186K followerss
• DedSec - lots of brief screenshot how-to vids based in Kali, no recent posts.
• DEFCON Conference - lots of lengthy con-style vids from the iconical DEFCON
• DemmSec - lots of pen testing vids, somewhat irregular uploads, 44K followers
• Don Does 30 - amateur pen-tester posting lots of brief screenshot vids regularly, 9K Followers
• Geeks Fort - KIF - lots of brief screenshot vids, no recent posts
• iExplo1t - lots of screenshot vids aimed at novices, 5.7K Followers, no recent posts
• HACKING TUTORIALS - handful of brief screenshot vids, no recent posts.
• LiveOverflow - Lots of brief-to-medium isntructional vids, covering things like buffer overflwos and exploit writing, regular posts.
• Metasploitation - lots of screenshot vids, little to no dialogue, all about using Metasploit, no recent vids.
• NetSecNow - channel of pentesteruniversity.org, seems to post once a month, screenshot instructional vids
• Open SecurityTraining - lots of lengthy lecture-style vids, no recent posts, but quality info.
• BalCCon - Balkan Computer Congress - Long con-style talks from the Balkan Computer Congress, doesn't update regularly
• Penetration Testing in Linux - DELETE
• rwbnetsec - lots of medium length instructional videos covering tools from Kali 2.0, no recent posts.
• Security Weekly - regular updates, lengthy podcst-style interview with industry pros
• Seytonic - variety of DIY hacking tutorials, hardware hacks, regular updates
• Shozab Haxor - lots of screenshot style instructional vids, regular updates, windows CLI tutorial
• SSTec Tutorials - lots of brief screenshot vids, regular updates
• Waleed Jutt - lots of brief screenshot vids covering web security and game programming
• webpwnized - lots of brief screenshot vids, some CTF walkthroughs
• JackkTutorials - lots of medium length instructional vids with some AskMe vids from the youtuber
• Zer0Mem0ry - lots of brief c++ security videos, programming intensive
• LionSec - lots of brief screenshot instructional vids, no dialog
• Adrian Crenshaw - lots of lengthy con0style talks
• HackerSploit - regular posts, medium length screenshot vids, with dialog
• Derek Rook - CTF/Boot2root/wargames Walkthrough - lots of lengthy screenshot instructional vids, with

Sharpening Your Skills

• OWASP Security Shepherd - BROKEN AS OF 11/6
• CTFLearn - an account-based ctf site, where users can go in and solve a range of challenges
• CTFs write-ups - a collection of writeups from various CTFs, organized by
• CTF365 - account based ctf site, awarded by Kaspersky, MIT, T-Mobile
• Pentestit - acocunt based CTF site, users have to install open VPN and get credentials
• Hacksplaining - a clickthrough security informational site, very good for beginners.
• The cryptopals crypto challenges - A bunch of CTF challenges, all focused on cryptography.
• The enigma group - web application security training, account based, video tutorials
• Ringzer0 Team - an account based CTF site, hosting over 272 challenges
• Hack The Box - Pen testing labs hosting over 39 vulnerable machines with two additional added every month
• Over the wire - A CTF that's based on progressive levels for each lab, the users SSH in, no account recquired
• Backdoor - pen testing labs that have a space for beginners, a practice arena and various competitions, account required
• Vulnhub - site hosts a ton of different vulnerable Virtual Machine images, download and get hacking
• Hack.me - lets you build/host/attack vulnerable web apps
• Hack this site! - an oldy but goodie, account required, users start at low levels and progress in difficulty
• Exploit exercises - hosts 5 fulnerable virtual machines for you to attack, no account required
• PentesterLab - hosts a variety of exercises as well as various "bootcamps" focused on specific activities
• SmashTheStack - hosts various challenges, similar to OverTheWire, users must SSH into the machines and progress in levels
• PicoCTF - CTF hosted by Carnegie Mellon, occurs yearly, account required.
• Shellter Labs - account based infosec labs, they aim at making these activities social
• Pentest Practice - account based Pentest practice, free to sign up, but there's also a pay-as-you-go feature
• Pentest.training - lots of various labs/VMS for you to try and hack, registry is optional.
• pwnable.kr - Don't let the cartoon characters fool you, this is a serious CTF site that will teach you a lot, account required
• pwnable.tw - hosts 27 challenges accompanied with writeups, account required
• hackburger.ee - hosts a number of web hacking challenges, account required
• http://noe.systems/ - Korean challenge site, requires an account
• Hacker Gateway - ctfs covering steganography, cryptography, and web challengs, account required
• Solve Me - "yet another challenge", account required.
• Challenge Land - Ctf site with a twist, no simple sign-up, you have to solve a challengeto even get that far!
• Participating Challenge Sites - aims at creating a universal ranking for CTF participants
• Hacker test - similar to "hackthissite", no account required.
• Crackmes.de Archive (2011-2015) - a reverse engineering information Repo, started in 2003
• ROP Emporium - Return Oriented Programming challenges
• Google's XSS game - XSS challenges, an dpotentially a chance to get paid!

  Reverse Engineering, Buffer Overflow and Exploit Development

• Shell storm - Blog style collection with organized info about Rev. Engineering.
• Buffer Overflow Exploitation Megaprimer for Linux - Collection of Linux Rev. Engineering videos
• Reverse Engineering Malware 101 - intro course created by Malware Unicorn, complete with material and two VM's
• Reverse Engineering Malware 102 - the sequel to RE102
• Modern Binary Exploitation - CSCI 4968 - RE challenges, you can download the files or download the VM created by RPISEC specifically for challenges, also links to their home page with tons of infosec lectures
• Introductory Intel x86 - 63 days of OS class materials, 29 classes, 24 instructors, no account required
• Binary hacking - 35 "no bullshit" binary videos along with other info
• Shellcode Injection - a blog entry from a grad student at SDS Labs
• Reverse Engineering for Beginners - huge OS textbook, created by Dennis Yurichev
• Exploit tutorials - a series of 9 exploit tutorials,also features a podcast
• Exploit development - links to the forum's exploit dev posts, quality and post style will vary with each poster
• flAWS challenge - Through a series of levels you'll learn about common mistakes and gotchas when using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Corelan tutorials - detailed tutorial, lots of good information about memory
• Reverse engineering reading list - a github collection of RE tools and books
• Reverse Engineering challenges - collection of challenges from the writer of RE for Beginners
• Reverse Engineering for beginners (GitHub project) - github for the above
• reversing.kr challenges - reverse engineering challenges varying in difficulty
• Analysis and exploitation (unprivileged) - huge collection of RE information, organized by type.
• A Course on Intermediate Level Linux Exploitation - as the title says, this course isn't for beginners
• Lena's Reversing for Newbies (Complete) - listing of a lengthy resource by Lena, aimed at being a course
• Megabeets journey into Radare2 - one user's radare2 tutorials
• [Introduction to ARM Assembly Basics] (https://azeria-labs.com/writing-arm-assembly-part-1/) - tons of tutorials from infosec pro Azeria, follow her on twitter
• Linux (x86) Exploit Development Series - blog post by sploitfun, has 3 different levels

Privilege Escalation

• Reach the root - discusses a process for linux privilege exploitation
• Basic linux privilege escalation - basic linux exploitation, also covers Windows
• Windows Privilege Escalation - collection of wiki pages covering Windows Privilege escalation
• Privilege escalation for Windows and Linux - covers a couple different exploits for Windows and Linux
• Windows Privilege Escalation Fundamentals - collection of great info/tutorials, option to contribute to the creator through patreon, creator is an OSCP
• RootHelper - a tool that runs various enumeration scripts to check for privilege escalation
• Windows exploits, mostly precompiled. - precompiled windows exploits, could be useful for reverse engineering too
• Unix privesc checker - a script that checks for PE vulnerabilities on a system
• Privilege escalation linux with live example - covers a couple common PE methods in linux
• Windows privilege escalation checker - a list of topics that link to pentestlab.blog, all related to windows privilege escalation
• Linux Privilege Escalation Scripts - a list of PE checking scripts, some may have already been covered
• AutoLocalPrivilegeEscalation - automated scripts that downloads and compiles from exploitdb
• Linux Privilege Escalation Check Script - a simple linux PE check script
• Local Linux Enumeration & Privilege Escalation Cheatsheet - good resources that could be compiled into a script
• 4 Ways get linux privilege escalation - shows different examples of PE

Malware Analysis

• Malware traffic analysis - list of traffic analysis exercises
• Malware Analysis - CSCI 4976 - another class from the folks at RPISEC, quality content

Network Scanning / Reconnaissance

• Foot Printing with WhoIS/DNS records - a white paper from SANS
• Google Dorks/Google Hacking - list of commands for google hacks, unleash the power of the world's biggest search engine

Vulnerable Web Application

• OWASP Hackademic Challenges project - web hacking challenges
• bWAPP - common buggy web app for hacking, great for beginners, lots of documentation
• Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) - PHP/MySQL web app for testing skills and tools
• WebGoat: A deliberately insecure Web Application - maintained by OWASP and designed to to teach web app security
• OWASP Mutillidae II - another OWASP vulnerable app, lots of documentation.
• OWASP Broken Web Applications Project - hosts a collection of broken web apps
• Damn Small Vulnerable Web - written in less than 100 lines of code, this web app has tons of vulns, great for teaching
• OWASP Juice Shop - covers the OWASP top 10 vulns
• Google Gruyere - host of challenges on this cheesy web app

Vulnerable OS

• Metasploitable2 (Linux) - vulnerable OS, great for practicing hacking
• Metasploitable3 [Installation] - the third installation of this vulnerable OS
• Vulnhub - collection of tons of different vulnerable OS and challenges
• General Test Environment Guidance - white paper from the pros at rapid7

Linux Penetration Testing OS

• BackBox - open source community project, promoting security in IT enivornments
• BlackArch - Arch Linux based pentesting distro, compatible with Arch installs
• Kali - the infamous pentesting distro from the folks at Offensive Security
• LionSec Linux - pentesting OS based on Ubuntu
• Parrot - Debian includes full portable lab for security, DFIR, and development
• Bugtraq - advanced GNU Linux pen-testing technology
• Android Tamer - Android Tamer is a Virtual / Live Platform for Android Security professionals.

Exploits

• Exploit Database - database of a wide variety exploits, CVE compliant archive
• CXsecurity - Indie cybersecurity info managed by 1 person
• 0day.today - Easy to navigate database of exploits
• Snyk Vulnerability DB - detailed info and remediation guidance for known vulns, also allows you to test your code

Forums

• Greysec - hacking and security forum
• Hackforums - posting webstite for hacks/exploits/various discussion
• 0x00sec - hacker, malware, computer engineering, Reverse engineering
• Antichat - russian based forum
• EAST Exploit database - exploit DB for commercial exploits written for EAST Pentest Framework

Archived Security Conference Videos

• InfoCon.org - hosts data from hundreds of cons
• Irongeek - Website of Adrien Crenshaw, hosts a ton of info.

Online Communities

• Hack+ - link requires telegram to be used
• MPGH - community of MultiPlayerGameHacking
• Hacktoday - requires an account, covering all kinds of hacking topics

Online News Sources

• Recent Hash Leaks - great place to lookup hashes
• InfoSec - covers all the latest infosec topics
• Threatpost - covers all the latest threats and breaches
• Security Intell - covers all kinds of news, great intelligence resources
• The Hacker News - features a daily stream of hack news, also has an app