Knowledge

January 12th, 2010 - Be the First Comment!

Knowledge is the most powerful tool that is available to humans. For this reason sharing knowledge is a wonderful thing. In an effort to disperse knowledge I will posting some this I have been reading. I will probably also be commenting on whether i found them useful to look at or think they are definite skip.

People who know me, know that I love computer security. I’m still at meager beginnings but I enjoy learning about it. This passion has lead to my discovery of many security related sites. Here are a couple and what I think of them.

Infinity Exists is a very interesting site. It is probably on the lesser known side and has a bunch of tutorial type videos relating to computer security. There are a few videos unrelated to it as well. I like this site. They are very open and it comes from someone in the same position as me. Someone starting out with a interest in security and learning. The production quality is low budget but still pretty decent.

Heorot is another site that I like. I recently bought a book called “Professional Penetration Testing: Creating and Operating a Formal Hacking Lab” and am really enjoying it  so far. The guy who wrote the book maintains the Heorot site. The author is the creator of De-Ice. De-Ice is a bootable CD that is built for you to try to break into, but doesn’t contain unpatched software. It is based on misconfiguration discovery and exploitation. They also contain multiple levels of difficulty.

[ Tags ]: computer security, de-ice, penetration testing, starting out in security
[ Category ]: computer security