Awesome Resources For Learning Hacking & Pentesting

Basically What I’m sharing here is a Collection of some best resources about Penetration Testing & Reverse Engineering, I made this repository to help the new members on this field with my own personal notes! :D

(Maybe i forgot to add some of my notes but i'll do daily updates!)

Also you can find my own writeups/tutorials on medium : @hussnainfareed :)

Contribution

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Books

1. The Hacker Playbook 2: Practical Guide To Penetration Testing
2. The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing, Second Edition: Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Made Easy
3. Breaking into Information Security: Learning the Ropes 101
4. Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking
5. Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking
6. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition
7. Web Hacking 101
8. OWASP Testing Guide (A must read for web application developers and penetration testers)

Learning Platforms

Online

• Hack The Box :: Penetration Testing Labs

• OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory Project (Online) - List of online available vulnerable applications for learning purposes

• Pentestit labs - Hands-on Pentesting Labs (OSCP style)

• Root-me.org - Hundreds of challenges are available to train yourself in different and not simulated environments

• Vulnhub.com - Vulnerable By Design VMs for practical 'hands-on' experience in digital security

• Infosecinstitute.com

• PentesterLab.com

• Complete Penetration Testing Tutorials by OWASP

• Silesia Security Lab

• Rafay Hacking Articles, a great blog

• Troyhunt

Off-Line

• Damn Vulnerable Xebia Training Environment - Docker Container including several vurnerable web applications (DVWA,DVWServices, DVWSockets, WebGoat, Juiceshop, Railsgoat, django.NV, Buggy Bank, Mutilidae II and more)
• OWASP Vulnerable Web Applications Directory Project (Offline) - List of offline available vulnerable applications for learning purposes

Vulnerable Machines/Websites

1. FiringRange

Courses

1. Computer Systems Security, MIT

For those who want to do CEH, the following links are for you. 2. CBT Nuggets CEH Training 3. CEH Books 4. Guide to Binary Exploitation

Workshops/Playlists

1. Web Hacking
2. Ethical Hacking, A Comprehensive Playlist covering almost everything

Security Talks and Conferences

1. InfoCon - Hacking Conference Archive
2. Curated list of Security Talks and Videos
3. Blackhat
4. Defcon
5. Security Tube
6. Kevin Mitnick: Live Hack at CeBIT
7. Ghost in the Cloud, Kevin Mitnick
8. Kevin Mitnick | Talks at Google
9. Complete Free Hacking Course: Go from Beginner to Expert Hacker Today

YouTube Channels

Now let’s get Towards YouTube Channel Links... These Channels are Shared By Hackers where They Upload their Video POCs.. Watching them u can actually understand how to demonstrate these type of attacks...

1. SecurityIdiots
2. Black Hat
3. Injector Pca
4. Hisham Mir
5. Devil Killer
6. Suleman Malik
7. Dem0n
8. Frans Rosén
9. HackerOne
10. ak1t4 machine
11. Shawar Khan
12. vulnerability0lab
13. Bugcrowd
14. Vijay Kumar
15. Web Development Tutorials
16. Jan Wikholm
17. Bhargav Tandel
18. ErrOr SquaD
19. Hussnain Fareed
20. Penetration Testing in Linux

Any Channel Link Missing? Kindly add it in Comments

NOTE:

All references taken from Internet and shared on internet xD Thanks to those who shared their opinion before that helped me learn 😉 if you have any questions, please ask in the comments. If you know about any good resource for beginners, please share it.

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