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Awesome Resources For Learning Hacking & Pentesting

What I’m sharing here is a collection of some best resources about Hacking & Penetration Testing to make you learn faster!

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

Let's make it the biggest resource repository for our community.

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

Books

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

Learning Platforms to Sharpen Your Skills

Online

Name	Description
CTF Hacker101	The Hacker101 CTF is a game designed to let you learn to hack in a safe, rewarding environment. Hacker101 is a free educational site for hackers.
Hack The Box :: Penetration Testing Labs	An online platform to test and advance your skills in penetration testing and cyber security. Join today and start training in our online labs.
CTF365	An account based ctf site, awarded by Kaspersky, MIT, T-Mobile.
Backdoor	Pen testing labs that have a space for beginners, a practice arena and various competitions, account required.
Hack.me	Lets you build/host/attack vulnerable web apps.
CTFLearn	An account-based ctf site, where users can go in and solve a range of challenges.
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
Windows / Linux Local Privilege Escalation Workshop	Practice your Linux and Windows privilege escalation.
Hacking Articles	CTF Breif Write up collection with a lot of screenshots good for beggainers.
Rafay Hacking Articles, a great blog	Write up collections by Rafay Baloch.

Off-Line

Name	Description
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

FiringRange

Vulnerability Databases And Resources

Vulnerability Databases are the first place to start your day as a security professional. Any new vulnerability detection is generally available through the public vulnerability databases. These databases are a big source of information for hackers to be able to understand and exploit/avoid/fix the vulnerability.

Courses

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

Security Talks and Conferences

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...

Any Channel Link Missing? Kindly add it in Comments

Contribution

Your contributions and suggestions are heartily welcome.

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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