Hackosis

The Ubuntu Wiki has released a training manual for both students and teachers alike. Both PDF files are around 70MB and include a wealth of information to get you on your Ubuntu way.

Orkspace.net has enough security and hacking (cracking) documentation to keep anyone busy for a long time with over 200 papers on security, hacking, and vulnerability exploitation.

Categories include:

• Linux/Unix Exploitation
• Windows Exploitation
• Web Vulnerabilities Exploitation
• Other

Enjoy the reading material, it is definitely a to-do on my list. They also have a great list of book and toy recommendations at button links at the top of the page.

Are you interested in learning about security, hacking, and vulnerability exploitation? Let us know in the comments.

Is your web application secure? Don’t know how to tell? Read The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook.

From the back cover:

Know your Enemy

To defend an application, you must first know its weaknesses. If you design or maintain web applications, this book will arm you with the protective measures you need to all of the attacks described. If you are a developer, it will show you where and exactly how to strengthen your defenses.

Normally I do not promote non-free products on the blog, but I am currently searching for some books to buy and this one really stood out.

Get it at Amazon.

This may not be news to some - but I have found some excellent free reading material about the computer underground. The author of Underground, Suelette Dreyfus has taken the liberty to release the book as a free download.

The author is not a hacker, but has done some aspiring research on the subject. The book is based on true events.

I am by no means finished with this book, merely in chapter 2 at the time of writing this post. What I can say so far is that this book is awesome.

I would like to share an excerpt from the first chapter:

What Tencati found startled him. There were traces of the worm on the machine all right, the familiar pattern of login failures as the worm attempted to break into different accounts. But these remnants of the WANK worm were not dated 16 October or any time immediately around then. The logs showed worm-related activity up to two weeks before the attack on NASA. This computer was not just a pass-through machine the worm had used to launch its first attack on NASA. This was the development machine.

Ground zero.

I strongly encourage anyone that is interested in PC security to read this book. It is not going to teach you how to hack NASA, it is just very intriguing reading material about true events.

Underground Homepage | About Underground | Download Underground

I stumbled upon some interesting reading in the Chengdu University of Technology’s FTP site. Although it is quite old, I found this particular book quite intriguing.

Doesn’t everyone read a document at least once? At least I thought they did. ;)

On catb.org there is a lovely document that I hope you have time to read:

How to become a hacker