*** As I’m sure you’re all aware, there are white hat, gray hat and black hat hackers. The same tools are available to everybody. With that being said, the information and content available here is for educational purposes only. I have provided vulnerable machines that are intended for you to play around with, as well as tools to help you build your own lab. Never try to break or hack anything that you do not have express written permission for. Don’t jam yourself up when you’re just getting started. ***
Resources
Hypervisors
- VMWare Workstation – Premium Hypervisor
- VirtualBox – Free Virtualization Software from Oracle
Vulnerable VM’s
- Metasploitable 2 – Pre-built VM right out of the box
- Metasploitabe 3 – You have to compile using Vagrant
- OverTheWire.org – Collection of online wargames
- VulnHub – Huge library of vulnerable VM’s
- OWASP – The Open Web Application Security Project
- Hack the Box – Collection of pentesting labs
Tools
YouTube
- Black Hat – Keynotes from the top security conference
- Defcon – Keynotes from the Defcon conferences
- Hak5 – Home to Metasploit Minute & the Wifi Pineapple
- Null Byte – Tutorials for ethical hackers & the InfoSec Community
- HackerSploit Demonstrations, explanations and tutorials for white hat hackers
- Commaai – Official channel of George Hotz’s Comma AI
Websites
- Null Byte – News, content and tutorials for the InfoSec community
- Black Room Security – Blog specializing in CTF’s
- Dark Reading – Online community for security proffesionals
- Cybrary – Free training for those interested in cybersecurity
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