vailixi Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I want to learn more about hacking. I have heard about free hacker spaces. But whenever I look those up on Google I find a nice long list of broken links. Are there still any legal hacker spaces open? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 (edited) There are plenty of web resources out there. 'Hacking' is more of a mindset applicable to any discipline and you can't really learn it. My advice: start with all past Hak5 episodes, Eli the Computer Guy lessons and then read as much technical information in the areas that interest you the most! Many things seem esoteric, but after a while they seem relatively straight forward! Edited October 18, 2013 by Oli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dec100 Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Your best bet is to download VirtualBox (or similar) and create your own VM lab to practice in. You could then have a VM running Windows XP or 7 as your target machine, and a VM with Kali as your attack machine. There are also a number of purposely vulnerable Linux distros/apps available to practice attacking in a VM lab. Look at: Damn Vulnerable Web Application - http://www.dvwa.co.uk/ Mutillidae - http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=mutillidae/mutillidae-deliberately-vulnerable-php-owasp-top-10 Bad Store - http://www.badstore.net/ Metasploitable - http://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/Metasploitable And loads more I'm forgetting. If you can't set-up your own lab, there are various paid-for labs you can rent access to, but I've never done that myself. I believe this one is free, but I've never used it: http://www.hackthissite.org/ Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 I will leave these goodies here. https://community.rapid7.com/docs/DOC-2196 https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2013/01/08/free-metasploit-penetration-testing-lab-in-the-cloud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaraByte Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 (edited) Yeah hackthissite.org is my advice they give you questions as to what should you do to hack each test however i know its cheating but you can google the answers and learn you can't learn to read without knowing you're ABC's first. Thats the way i feel about people who would use google for hackthissite.org to be honest there are alot of the tests on hackthissite.org i've never started nor finished. I think the real question is how do you want to learn it or which method would you learn better at Do you learn faster from a video? or are you the kinda person who likes to read a long guide or book Because everybody learns stuff differently myself i prefer to be shown in a video how to do it then sitting here reading a book i have a really short attention span it really has be to be something im wanting to know to take the time to pick up a book. The people like myself who dislike to read a book or guide i feel we are the ones who miss out on learning. Lucky for us theres now audio books coming out. Edited October 18, 2013 by ZaraByte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dec100 Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Just noticed OWASP has a list of these... https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Vulnerable_Web_Applications_Directory_Project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poorman Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 get a book or 2 on the subject along with the free web sources 2 old computers these u can usealy buy off someone for 50 to 100 bucks a router from a seond hand shop should be not to much over 5 bucks and create a small network install backtrack and learn to use it in a controlled setting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitwon Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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