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Security Links

� The top professional computer security forum http://www.security-forums.com
� A totally HUGE security archive http://neworder.box.sk/
� Current and archived exploits http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/
� 'Underground' search engine http://www.warez.com/
� Default logins for all sorts of devices http://www.phenoelit.de/dpl/dpl.html
� One of the top mainstream security sites http://www.securityfocus.com/
� TESO Computer security http://teso.scene.at/
� Asian security group, lotsa advisories http://www.shadowpenguin.org/
� w00w00 Security development http://www.w00w00.org/
� USSR a strong security group http://www.ussrback.com/
� Good all around security site http://www.packetstormsecurity.nl
� SANS Security Institute with articles on EVERYTHING http://www.sans.org/
� A Fairly immense WWW security FAQ http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/
� Computer Security Encylopedia http://www.itsecurity.com/
� Java Security informationhttp://java.sun.com/security/
� Help Net Security http://www.net-security.org/
� Security Search Engine http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/
� FreeBSD security information http://www.freebsd.org/security/
� Netscape security information http://home.netscape.com/security/
� Linux security community centre http://www.linuxsecurity.com/
� Dutch Security Information Network http://www.dsinet.org/
� A once great site from a white hat hacker http://www.antionline.com/
� Network Security Library http://secinf.net/
� Infamous happy hacker http://www.happyhacker.org/
� Infosec papers and articles http://www.infosecwriters.com/
� The BIGGEST security/privacy/crypto software archive http://www.wiretapped.net/
� The Info Sec Bible http://www.securityflaw.com/bible
� Government Incident Advisory service http://www.ciac.org/ciac/
� The ultimate resource for all security tools http://www.networkintrusion.co.uk

Useful Mailing Lists

*Work In Progress*

Security Related LiveCD/Floppy Distributions

LAS (Security tools version of Knoppix)- http://localareasecurity.com/
Server Optimised Diagnosis and Testing - http://www.sol-linux.com/Content/SoLdiag
F.I.R.E (Excellent Forensics Kit) - http://fire.dmzs.com/
Knoppix STD (Terrible name I know, similar to LAS) - http://www.knoppix-std.org/
PHLAK (H4x0r toolkit forked from Morphix) - http://www.phlak.org
PLAC (Testing and Recovery) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/plac
Penguin Sleuth Kit - http://www.linux-forensics.com/downloads.html
PLD RescueCD - http://rescuecd.pld.org.pl/
System Rescue - http://www.systemrescuecd.org/
System Down:Rescue - http://www.system-down.com/index.php
Mondo Restore - http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/
Stress Testing - http://www.stresslinux.org/
Tomsrtbt - http://www.toms.net/rb/
ProjectB - http://www.projectplanb.org/main.htm
Operator - http://www.ussysadmin.com/operator/
Trinity Rescue Kit - http://trinityhome.org/trk/

Zines & Texts

� 2600 The hacker quarterly http://www.2600.com/
� Online book collection http://www.maththinking.com/boat/booksIndex.html
� Internet FAQ archive http://www.faqs.org/
� The Linux documentation Project http://www.tldp.org/
� Another fine member of the box network http://black.box.sk
� Even more info from the box network http://blacksun.box.sk
� Internet How To archive http://www.howtos.nl/
� 45,000 text files old skool style http://www.textfiles.com
� Linux Networking Overview http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/
� Currently the only Defacement mirror http://www.zone-h.org/
� The best of Underground News http://www.undergroundnews.com/files/texts/best.htm
� Some useful texts + Rainbow books http://www.xs4all.nl/~l0rd/hack.htm

Virii/Trojans & Firewalls

� Trojan archive http://packetstormsecurity.nl/trojans/
� Fearless, everything Trojan http://www.areyoufearless.com/
� Up to date Trojan archive http://www.trojanforge.net/
� A good archive with info on each one http://www.dark-e.com/archive/trojans/index.shtml
� Sub7's official Home Page http://www.sub7.net/
� Home of BackOrifice http://www.cultdeadcow.com/
� Huge Trojan removal database http://www.anti-trojan.org/
� Excellent Anti-Viral software and Virii Database http://www.sophos.com/
� Mcafee's Searchable Virus Information Library http://vil.mcafee.com/
� Firewall Guide http://www.firewallguide.com/
� Firewall FAQ http://www.interhack.net/pubs/fwfaq/
� Firewall How To http://www.grennan.com/Firewall-HOWTO.html
� Squid http://www.squid-cache.org/
� Excellent virus news and info http://www.antivirus-online.de/english/
� The ULTIMATE IPTables resource http://www.linuxguruz.org/iptables/
� Personal Firewall Test Page http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jugesoftware/firewallleaktester/eng/pageweb/test.html

Exploits/Vulnerabilities and Advisory Services

Infamous X-Force http://xforce.iss.net/
Fairly 0day - http://www.k-otik.com/exploits/
Internet Storm Centre - http://isc.sans.org
DShield - http://www.dshield.org/
EEye Team - http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/
CERT - http://www.cert.org
LinuxSecurity - http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/
ICAT CVE Database - http://icat.nist.gov/icat.cfm
Security Focus - http://www.securityfocus.com/bid
Security Corporation - http://www.security-corporation.com/

Security

� THE ultimate port scanner nmap. http://www.insecure.org/
� The one and only NT password cracker l0phtcrack 3. http://www.atstake.com/research/lc/
� Get the latest version of john the ripper. http://www.openwall.com/john/
� Windows process listener Inzider.http://www.ntsecurity.nu/toolbox/inzider/
� hping craft those packets http://www.hping.org/
� Netcat, hackers swiss army knife http://freshmeat.net/projects/netcat/
� TCPDump for packet aquisition http://www.tcpdump.org/
� The ONLY packet sniffer http://www.ethereal.com/
� Firewalk http://www.packetfactory.net/firewalk/
� Network grep http://www.packetfactory.net/projects/ngrep/
� Fragrouter http://packetstormsecurity.nl/UNIX/IDS/nidsbench/fragrouter.html
� The best OS fingerprinter http://www.sys-security.com/html/projects/X.html
� Fport port mapper http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?subnav=resources/navigation.htm&subcontent=/resources/proddesc/fport.htm
� Tripwire Integrity checker http://www.tripwire.org/
� Check for rootkits http://www.chkrootkit.org/
� Open source intrusion detection http://www.snort.org/
� Security Scanner http://www.nessus.org/
� Paketto toolkit http://www.doxpara.com/read.php/code/paketto.html
� Ettercap multipurpose sniffing http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/
� Whisker CGI Scanner http://sourceforge.net/projects/whisker/
� Another huge CGI scanner http://www.cirt.net/code/nikto.shtml
� Kismet 802.11 sniffer http://www.kismetwireless.net/
� Airsnort the original WLAN sniffer http://airsnort.shmoo.com/
� NBTScan, NetBIOS network name scanner http://www.inetcat.org/software/nbtscan.html
� Honeyd, your own honeydaemon http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/
� STunnel, secure SSH wrapper http://www.stunnel.org/

Anti-virus

� Sophos - Good cross platform AV, updates can be a problem http://www.sophos.com/
� AVG Anti Virus - Provides a free AV solution, technically strong http://www.grisoft.com/
� Panda Software Includes a free online anti-virus scanner for Windows http://www.panda-software.com/
� Mcafee - Well it's ok http://www.mcafee.com/
� Norton - Standard AV solutions for Windows, Corporate editions of both (Norton and McAfee) are reasonable http://www.symantec.com/
� Kaspersky - My preferred AV solution, the most technically capable AV engine http://www.kaspersky.com/
� NOD32 - Small company, but technically strong. Slow on updates http://www.nod32.com/
� Trend/PcCillin - Has improved a lot lately, also provides online scanner http://www.trendmicro.com/
� Vet - Australian AV vendor http://www.vet.com.au/
� Norman - No experience of this one. http://www.norman.com/
� F-Secure - Very technically powerful software with a long history. http://www.f-secure.com/
� Bitdefender - Also has a free AV version with online scan. http://www.bitdefender.com/
� OpenAntiVirus - Open source AV solution. http://www.openantivirus.org/

Personal Firewalls

Linux based firewall solutions

� IPCop - http://www.ipcop.org/ (My favourite)
� Clark Connect - http://www.clarkconnect.org/
� Smoothwall - http://www.smoothwall.org/
� Dubbele - http://www.dubbele.com/.
� Astaro Security Linux - http://www.astaro.com/
� IGWall - http://www.infoguard.ch/en/templates/TmpFreestyle.cfm?contentID=1&um1ID=70
� LRP - http://www.linuxrouter.org/
� E-smith - http://www.e-smith.org/
� ClosedBSD - http://www.closedbsd.org/index.html
� FloppyFW - http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
� Freesco - http://www.freesco.org/
� TheWall - http://thewall.sourceforge.net/
� LEAF - http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ (the best of the floppy lot)

Commercial Firewall solutions/Appliances

� Netscreen - http://www.netscreen.com/
� Watchguard - http://www.watchguard.com/
� SonicWall - http://www.sonicwall.com/
� Barricade - http://www.privador.com/?op=body&id=13
� Nokia - http://www.nokia.com/securitysolutions/
� Checkpoint - http://www.checkpoint.com/
� Cisco PIX - http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/fw/sqfw500/
� Spearhead - http://www.sphd.com/
� Protectix Prowall - http://www.protectix.com/
� Microsoft ISA - http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/
� Symantec Enterprise Firewall - http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/products/products.cfm?productid=47&EID=0

Online Security/Port Scanning

GRC Shields Up! - https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
PC Flank Multiple Tests - http://www.pcflank.com/
Good Range of Port Scans - http://scan.sygate.com/
Basic Port Scan - http://www.dslreports.com/scan
Online port Scanners - http://www.computercops.biz/article808.html
Privacy and Security - http://www.auditmypc.com
Basic Scanner - http://www.preventon.com/scanner/en/
Trojan Scanner - http://www.trojanscan.com/
Lots of Tests - http://stealthtests.lockdowncorp.com/
Good online port scanner - http://www.hackerwhacker.com/
Panda online AV - http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm
Trend online AV - http://housecall.antivirus.com/
Bitdefender online AV - http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
RAV online AV - http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/
Kasperksy remote virus scanner - http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html

Anti-Virus Test Sites

http://www.av-test.org
http://www.check-mark.com/cgi-bin/redirect.pl
http://www.icsalabs.com/html/communities/antivirus/certifiedproducts.shtml
http://www.virusbtn.com/100/

Scene

� The only scene site you need http://www.stolemy.com/ (ISOnews).
� Check out the quality http://www.vcdquality.com
� VCD site http://www.vcdhelp.com/
� Great site for Dreamcast stuff http://www.dccopyworld.com/
� The BEST for serials, cracks and keygens http://astalavista.box.sk/
� The best site for free DVD software http://www.dvdsoft.net
� Massive scene archive, easily as good as isonews http://www.nforce.nl

News Groups

A great source of information, discussion and answers to questions
(or flames) depending how you put them ;)

� alt.2600
� alt.hacker
� alt.hacking
� alt.ph.uk
� alt.computer.security
� alt.security
� alt.os.security
� alt.security.pgp
� comp.os.linux.security
� comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.security
� comp.security.unix
� comp.security.misc
� comp.security.firewalls
� microsoft.public.security
� sci.crypt

'Legal' Hacking

� Hack me http://loginmatrix.com/hackme/
� Try2Hack http://www.try2hack.nl/
� Hack3r/Roothack http://roothack.org/
� Root wars http://rootwars.org/
� Hackers lab http://www.hackerslab.org/
� Datafort http://hack.datafort.net/
� Arcanum, Hard! http://www.arcanum.co.nz/
� NGSec Challenge http://quiz.ngsec.biz:8080/
� Hack this site http://www.hackthissite.org/
� Listing of all games http://hackergames.net/
� Blind Dice Challenges http://www.blind-dice.com/
� Learn To Hack http://www.learntohack.org/
� X-avier http://x-avier.com/
� Mod-x http://www.mod-x.co.uk
� HDC Wargame http://www.hdcwargame.com
� Mindlock Security Challenges http://mindlock.bestweb.net/join.php
� MindFuk http://mindfuk.net/

Programming

General

Scripts, Source and Books http://www.scriptsearch.com/
Programmers Heaven http://www.programmersheaven.com/
Loads of tutorials http://www.echoecho.com
Plenty of Web Development scripts http://www.hotscripts.com
Code for everything http://www.planet-source-code.com/
Freshmeat OS projects http://freshmeat.net
Sourceforge! The ultimate http://sourceforge.net
Thousands of HowTo's http://www.howtos.nl
MS Development Centre http://search.microsoft.com/us/dev/default.asp
Excellent Programmers tools archive http://protools.cjb.net
PC Programming information http://www.epanorama.net/links/pc/programming.html
3000+ Programming resources http://stommel.tamu.edu/%7Ebaum/programming.html

JAVA & JavaScript Resources

Java & Internet Glossary http://www.mindprod.com/jgloss.html
The best page for DHTML http://www.dynamicdrive.com
Java homepage http://java.sun.com/
Absolute Java FAQ http://www.javafaq.nu/
Thinking in Java http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/
JavaScript Resource http://www.javascript.com
JavaScripts,tutorials & references http://javascript.internet.com/

C/C++ & UNIX/Linux programming

UNIX programming links http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/%7Emilun/unix.programming.html
UNIX programming FAQ http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_toc.html
UNIX Sockets in C FAQ http://www.manualy.sk/sock-faq/unix-socket-faq.html
Mostly C/C++ information http://vasyaa.tripod.com/
C Course http://www.strath.ac.uk/IT/Docs/Ccourse
Another good C course http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/notes/top.html

PHP Resources

PHP home page http://www.php.net
PHP from hotscripts http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/
PHP resource index http://php.resourceindex.com/
PHP FAQ's http://www.faqts.com/
PHP Developer resources http://www.phpbuilder.com/
Building dynamic sites with PHP http://www.phpwizard.net.
PHP Developer network http://www.evilwalrus.com/
PHP Tutorials and more http://www.thescripts.com/serversidescripting/php
PHP and MySQL tips and tutorials http://www.sitepoint.com/subcat/98
Webmonkey PHP resource http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/index.html
Zend PHP tutorials http://www.zend.org/zend/tut/
Applied OO PHP http://www.horde.org/papers/kongress2002-design_patterns/
PHPPatterns http://www.phppatterns.com/
PHPArena http://www.phparena.net/
How do I make skins? http://www.domesticat.net/skins/howto.php
PHPGuru http://www.phpguru.org/

ASP Resources

ASPTear http://www.alphasierrapapa.com/IisDev/Components/AspTear/
ASP Codes and techniques http://www.asptoday.com/
ASP, HTML, SQL and more http://www.w3schools.com/
Think ASP think... http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/
ASP 101 http://www.asp101.com/
ASP developers site http://haneng.com/

PERL Resources

PERL Archive http://www.perlarchive.com/
PERL tutorials http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Tutorials
Old school PERL programming http://www.cgi101.com/

Databases/SQL

MySQL home http://www.mysql.com
PostgreSQL home http://www.postgresql.org/
Firebird http://sourceforge.net/projects/firebird/

Various Others

Windows programming tools http://www.programmerstools.org/
The art of Assembly http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_asm/ArtofAssembly/0_ArtofAsm.html
Python homepage http://www.python.org/
Object Oriented Programming http://www.oopweb.com/
XML 101 http://www.xml101.com
Dev-X XML zone http://www.devx.com/xml

Exploitation & Secure Programming

Links to lots of papers http://www.l0t3k.org/security/docs/programming/
The ultimate overflow archive http://community.core-sdi.com/~juliano/
Secure Programming HOW TO http://www.dwheeler.com/secure-programs/
Ugly site with good content http://www.secureprogramming.com/
Secure UNIX programming FAQ http://www.whitefang.com/sup/
Writing safe SETUID programs http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bishop/secprog/index.html
NSCA Secure programming guidelines http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Grid/ACES/security/programming/
Geras Insecure Programming (THE way to learn how to exploit) http://community.core-sdi.com/~gera/InsecureProgramming/
More Challengs http://0xbadc0ded.org/challenges/
Shellcode Archive http://www.linux-secure.com/endymion/shellcodes/index.html

Phreaking

Phreaking Links http://yarchive.net/phone/
2003 Box review http://artofhacking.com/boxrvw.htm

Search Engines

� The daddy of all search engines http://www.google.com
� Web index pioneer http://www.yahoo.com
� Huge numbers of results, relevance questionable http://www.altavista.com
� C-net's offering http://www.search.com
� Pretty good http://www.dogpile.com
� Touted as the fast search http://www.alltheweb.com
� The Wolf-Spider, also owns Hotbot below http://www.lycos.com/
� Parallel scalable searching http://www.hotbot.com/
� One of the best also owns entry below http://www.excite.com/
� Easy to use http://www.webcrawler.com/
� Maybe remembered as Goto.com http://www.overture.com/
� Not as good as it once was http://www.infoseek.com/
� Popular with beginners http://www.mamma.com/
� Paid listing search engine http://www.northernlight.com/
� Answers your questions *sometimes* http://www.ask.com/
� IMO *THE* best place for finding definitions http://whatis.techtarget.com/
� RFC search http://www.rfc-editor.org/
� Search the search engines http://www.metacrawler.com/
� Netscape Netcenter http://www.netcenter.com/
� FTP Search http://www.alltheweb.com/?cat=ftp&cs=utf-8&q=&_sb_lang=en
� Shareware/Freeware Engine http://www.tucows.com
� Another Shareware/Freeware Engine http://shareware.cnet.com
� Freeware site http://www.brothersoft.com/
� Good Freeware site with reviews http://www.webattack.com/
� A piece of software, but excellent for searches http://www.copernic.com/
� Want to know what an Tech term means? http://www.whatis.com
� File Extension Database http://filext.com/

I bet you didn't know there were so many ;)

Others

� Cool geek blog http://www.shaolintiger.com/
� No longer hosting defacements but still good http://attrition.org/
� General news for nerds, also has security content http://slashdot.org/
� Excellent site for everything Computer http://www.zdnet.com/
� The New Hackers Dictionary http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/
� How to become a hacker http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/
� Can't spell? One of my favourite ever sites http://www.dictionary.com
� Rightly ripping GRC.com http://www.grcsucks.com/
� Also GRC it's self does have *some* good stuff http://grc.com/
� The best IT related news site http://www.theregister.co.uk
� The best all around news site http://news.bbc.co.uk/
� Cyberarmy, home of various h4x0r stuff http://www.cyberarmy.com/
� Excellent place for finding ALL kinds of software http://sourceforge.net/
� Intelligence Brief http://www.intelbrief.com/
� Want to know how stuff works/ http://www.howstuffworks.com/

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