Hacking: Where to begin

[comcipher]

For all the people who are new at this whole “computer†thing and don’t really understand what hacking is all about and where to begin, I offer up these links to some great places to start learning.

Please contribute to this thread and I will keep it up to date. Probably should be made sticky.

News:

www.digg.com

www.slashdot.org

Presentations:

http://www.lessig.org/freeculture/free.html <-- A speech given talking all about the problems facing culture when dealing with copyright and other digital laws.

Podcasts:

http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm <-- This is fantastic for people who are new to the field. If you have the time or motivation, go back and listen to them from day 1, they assume you know very little if anything and hit on all of the major topics in the security field. Fantastic show.

IPTV Shows:

http://www.binrev.com/ <-- Produce a good IPTV show and also have forums that are usually helpful.

http://www.hak5.org <--- Duh....

Tutorial sites:

http://www.remote-exploit.org <-- Pretty good resources, some very nice video tutorials on various exploits. Defiantly check out the tutorial section.

http://www.irongeek.com/ <-- Excellent tutorials/information/articles.

http://www.antionline.com/ <-- Tutorials, tools and forums full of helpful people.

Programming Related:

Teach Yourself C in 21 Days: http://neonatus.net/C/index.html

Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days: http://cma.zdnet.com/book/c++/

The Art of Assembly Language Programming: http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/ArtOfAssembly/artofasm.html

Microsoft Developers Network: http://msdn.microsoft.com

----Web Programming:

HTML: http://www.w3schools.com

PHP: http://www.php.net

ASP.NET: http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1

SQL: http://www.mysql.com

Perl: http://www.perl.com/

Python: http://www.python.org

Security Related:

SecurityFocus: http://www.securityfocus.com/

Milw0rm: http://www.milw0rm.com

SecurityForest: http://securityforest.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

[jollyrancher82]

Programming Related:

Teach Yourself C in 21 Days: http://neonatus.net/C/index.html

Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days: http://cma.zdnet.com/book/c++/

The Art of Assembly Language Programming: http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/ArtOfAssembly/artofasm.html

Microsoft Developers Network: http://msdn.microsoft.com

Security Related:

SecurityFocus: http://www.securityfocus.com/

Milw0rm: http://www.milw0rm.com

SecurityForest: http://securityforest.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Video Resources:

Watching/reading papers or videos from past conventions such as Shmoocon, DefCon, or BlackHat, is a good idea.

[comcipher]

Thanks for the addition, I stuck it in the top post. Once it gets a little bigger I'll try to clean it up and organize it more.

[jollyrancher82]

If you are interested in websec (web security) you should pretty much understand the different protocols on the web, i.e TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, SSH, etc.

Knowledge of HTML, PHP, ASP, SQL, Perl, and Python is good.

HTML: http://www.w3schools.com

PHP: http://www.php.net

ASP.NET: http://www.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1

SQL: http://www.mysql.com

Perl: http://www.perl.com/

Python: http://www.python.org

[Dr Zaius]

• http://www.irongeek.com/ - Excellent tutorials/information/articles.

• http://www.antionline.com/ - Tutorials, tools and forums full of helpful people.

• http://www.governmentsecurity.org has quite alot of resources including good forums and papers but registration is closed to the public there again, however one of it's sister sites http://www.datastronghold.com/ has alot of information and is a gateway to membership at governmentsecurity.org if you write your own article.

• http://www.l0t3k.org/security/ - an archive of articles and tools, mostly aimed at someone using *nix though. Not updated as much as it used to be.

• http://www.microsoft.com/security/default.mspx - The official place to find out about security in Microsoft products.

• http://www.binrev.com/ - Produce a good IPTV show and also have forums that are usually helpful.

[comcipher]

We're assembling quite a large libarary of links, thanks guys! It's already almost to the point where it needs to be cleaned up. I just want to make sure that we keep the focus on people who are new to the scene and not focus to much on all the different details. Maybe i'll make posts further down like an appendix and point to those for more details.

[Dr Zaius]

Yeah its hard to gauge what to suggest, everyone will be starting at different levels of expertise and wanting to focus on different areas. Perhaps once we gather a bit more content we should shift this to the Hak.5 Wiki?

[spektormax]

securityfocus.com

Tools:

http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

http://www.cirt.net/code/nikto.shtml

http://www.nessus.org/

http://www.metasploit.com/

[tabath]

A good knowledge of tcp/ip and networking is essential;

heres a reaonably good intro :

http://www.ipprimer.com/subnet.cfm

I'll post links to others when I'm on my home comp

Oh and its probably is best on the Wiki like u said. :)

[comcipher]

Maybe once we get it edited down to a nice thread we'll have Darren make it sticky (he's the one that suggested we start a thread like this) and then we'll stick up a more detailed article in the wiki. I think it's important to have this in here, should help answer some of the n00bish questions from people who don't have a clue what their doing.

[nate]

I think it's important to have this in here, should help answer some of the n00bish questions from people who don't have a clue what their doing.

Agreed, since I'm kinda one of those n00bs. Thanks for the great links, I plan on spending many hours today just looking through these sites.

[VaKo]

Wouldn't this be a perfect cadidate for the the wiki? I could sticky it, but it might be worth editing it into one article.

[comcipher]

Wouldn't this be a perfect cadidate for the the wiki? I could sticky it, but it might be worth editing it into one article.

Absolutely, I’d love to stick this in the wiki. Go ahead and stick it if you can and i'll keep editing it as it grows. Like I mentioned earlier, the focus of this thread will be a "getting started" kind of thing, and in the wiki we can put the more detailed information and links to all kinds of different sites.

[Duelus]

Books

us.undernet.org 6667

join #bookz

[Employee]

All I have to say is, www.google.com

[Darren Kitchen]

I'll second the vote for putting this on the wiki, but I also agree that to some point this thread needs to be here in the hacking section stickied. Great work fellas!

[comcipher]

If it helps people i'm happy to pitch in.

[G0053]

here are some more links:

http://www.hackthissite.org/

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_passwords.htm

http://www.lurhq.com/cachepoisoning.html

http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html

http://www.nostarch.com/download/hacking_ch3.pdf

http://www.docdroppers.org/wiki/index.php?title=Hacking

http://tinyurl.com/h9wws

http://www.hackerthreads.org/phpbb/index.php

http://www.library.2ya.com/

[tabath]

.a subject you need to understand.

http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/ipt...s-tutorial.html

[Jamro]

most of the sites iv been readin are already listed but i didnt see one of my favs www.darklevel.org very nice site Great work every body gona have to look at some of these sites (that i havent been to)

11 outa 10 points!

http://www.try2hack.nl/ drives me insane:P silly level 6!

[kickarse]

as always the box.sk network

http://code.box.sk/

http://neworder.box.sk/

[athee]

This is my very first post by the way...

I don't know very much about hacking, I will soon try to run the script from the article "apple sneakyness" on my ipod. I know a little about html / action script... all the normal coding and I am willing to learn more about hacking passwords/website. I din't see the website : www.hidemyass.com : it can be really helpfull if your at school and you want to go on a gaming site or what ever.

sorry for my poor english.

[Employee]

I din't see the website : www.hidemyass.com : it can be really helpfull if your at school and you want to go on a gaming site or what ever.

Proxy. There are a lot of them. A short list I will provide I Guess.

www.daveproxy.co.uk

www.ctunnel.com

http://www.hidemyass.com/

http://www.proxert.com/

http://www.pagewash.com/

http://www.prx1.com/

http://www.freepr0xy.com/

http://www.freeproxysite.com/

http://blockmy.info/

http://www.alienproxy.com/

http://ipbouncer.be/

http://www.sweetproxy.com/

http://www.hidemytracks.net/

http://www.proxyslash.com/

http://www.unbloxy.com/

http://www.studentproxy.com/

http://www.anonymate.com/

http://www.spysurfing.com/

http://www.proxert.com/

http://www.finderly.net/Proxy/

http://www.sitesneak.com/

http://www.proxy-surf.net/

http://www.freevideocodes.us/

http://freeschool.be/

http://proxypop.com/

http://www.proxyed.blogiseverything.com/

http://kungfuproxy.com/

http://itracks.net/

http://www.teenproxy.com/

http://www.proxywhip.com/

http://www.myspaceproxy.com/

http://www.goproxy.org/

http://www.traceless.com/

http://demonproxy.com/

http://proxypop.com/

http://www.nomorelimits.net/

http://www.skipthrough.com/

http://hideyour.info/

http://www.letmeby.com/

http://www.browseany.com/

http://www.finderly.net/Proxy/

http://www.proxy-sock.com/index.php

http://www.anotherproxy.com/

http://www.proxyindex.com/

http://boredatschool.net/

http://www.proxypowered.com/

http://www.proxyprince.com/

http://www.rapidproxy.com/

http://www.ukproxy.com/

http://www.worldwideproxy.com/

http://www.thecgiproxy.com/

http://www.proxyguy.com/

http://www.freeproxy.us/

http://www.neoproxy.net/

http://www.thecgiproxy.com/

http://theproxy.info/

http://www.75i.net/

http://www.prx1.com/

http://www.proxyfoxy.com/

http://3proxy.com/index.pl

http://www.proxyhero.com/

http://indianproxy.com/

http://www.dzzt.com/

http://www.theproxy.be/

http://www.proxytastic.com/

http://www.browseatschool.net/

http://www.msnvip.com/

http://www.proxydrop.com/

http://www.worldwideproxy.com/

http://www.pimpmyip.com/

http://www.ohmyproxy.com/

http://www.proxyz.be/

http://browsingatwork.com/

http://www.proxy7.com/

http://www.sneakyuser.com/

http://www.browseatwork.com/

http://www.perception-media.net/jd/

http://www.v3gamer.com/proxy/

http://www.light.ukproxy.com/

http://www.browseatwork.net/

http://www.proxysurfing.net/

http://www.anotherproxy.com/

http://www.letsproxy.com/

http://www.ajitk.com/proxy/

http://www.worldwideproxy.com/

http://collegepie.com/proxy/

http://xanproxy.be/

http://proxy.iraqigeek.com/

http://www.gobyproxy.com/

http://www.betaproxy.com/

http://www.proxytastic.com/

http://anonymousproxy.us/

http://mvpzero.net/load/

http://www.zhaodaola.org/web/

http://www.ineedproxy.com/

http://www.fawazghali.com/proxy/

http://geoepker.hu/freeproxy/

http://fartpeepee.com/

http://whos-blazin.org/proxy/

http://farzaaad.blogfa.com/

http://www.logatic.co.uk/igoaround/

http://www.vimtoo.com/pro/

http://u2l.be/proxy.php

http://www.247proxy.com/

http://www.nimnim.ir/anti/

http://ali198.persianblog.com/

http://dnszone.com.ru/proxy-online/Index.php

http://hujiko.com/

https://proxify.com/

www.thedesignerslounge.net/bypass.html

http://pooling.info/

EDIT: I will update this later with more so you guys can just have a long list I guess. I'm going to bed its late and I just got back from camping Night everyone.

[comcipher]

Sorry I haven't been around much in the last few days, i've been out of town. Once I get back later this week i'll try and update the main post with all the relevant links.

[Employee]

One thing I also learned was...... READ! My mom always told me that reading was power. With computers its the TRUTH! So read everything you get your hands on, also with better english you have a farther path of life. (I said english as its my laungage but good grammar is my point) http://hackaday.com/ good site also