ULTIMATE BEGINNER HANDBOOK TO COMPUTER HACKING ESSENTIALS: LEARN ETHICAL HACKING, PENETRATION TESTING AND BASIC SECURITY: 50+ FREE RESOURCES TO HELP YOU MASTER THE ART OF HACKING (2015)
EXTRA FREE RESOURCES FOR HACKERS
Looking to secure your job as an ethical hacker? Here are highly recommended books and resources on hacking for beginnings or advanced hackers. This list will help you save time in looking for additional free resources to help you further your studies. We will update this book with more resources shortly.
Books
1. The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing: Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Made Easy (Syngress Basics Series)
2. CEH Certified Ethical Hacker All-in-One Exam Guide
3. Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide
4. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition
5. BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide
6. CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-301 Study Guide
Beginners Tutorials
1. How to learn Ethical hacking - Astalavista.com
2. Introduction to Penetration Testing
3. Penetration Testing Tutorial - Guru99.com
4. Cybrary – This platform provides free online IT and Security training videos that are super easy to follow.
5. Hacking Tutorials for Beginners - BreakTheSecurity.com
6. Simple How To Articles By Open Web Application Security
7. Information Gathering with Nmap
8. The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
Security-Related Articles
http://www.blackhat.com/
http://www.astalavista.com/
http://www.2600.com
http://packetstormsecurity.com/
http://www.hacking-tutorial.com/
http://hackaday.com/
http://www.hackthissite.org/
http://www.hitb.org/
http://pentestmag.com
https://www.ssllabs.com/
http://www.evilzone.org/
http://www.securitytube.net/
http://www.metasploit.com/
http://sectools.org/
http://www.breakthesecurity.com/
Videos
Defcon: How I Met your Girlfriend – Defcon, a most popular hacker conference
Open Security Training- Youtube 90 hour Playlist
Cryptography Course By Dan Boneh of Stanford University
OWASP AppSec USA 2011: compilation highlights of OWASP conference .
Vulnerability Databases And Resources
http://www.exploit-db.com/
http://cvedetails.com
http://www.securiteam.com/
http://secunia.com/advisories/
http://1337day.com/
http://securityvulns.com/
http://www.securityfocus.com/
http://www.vupen.com/english/security-advisories/
http://www.vupen.com/blog/
http://oval.mitre.org/
http://www.osvdb.org/
http://insecure.org/sploits_all.html
http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/published/
Forums For Hackers And Security Professionals
Stackoverflow for security professionals
http://www.hackforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=47
http://forums.securityinfowatch.com/
http://darksat.x47.net/
http://forums.cnet.com/spyware-viruses-security-forum/