UPDATED: Added anti-virus software, personal firewall list, commercial
firewall list and re-organised programming section.

Security Links

§ Good upcoming 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.mksecure.com/defpw/.
§ 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


Privacy and Anonymity

ÿ All about privacy http://www.privacy.net.
ÿ Well known privacy/security portal http://www.cotse.com
ÿ Anonymity, privacy and security http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/.
ÿ Free, anonymous web surfing http://www.anonymizer.com/.
ÿ IDSecure service http://www.idzap.com/.
ÿ News, information and action http://www.privacy.org/.
ÿ Sam Spade Tools http://www.samspade.org/t/.
ÿ International PGP homepage http://www.pgpi.org.
ÿ Encryptable web-mail http://www.hushmail.com/.
ÿ Anonymity software http://www.skuz.net/potatoware/.
ÿ REALLY delete your data http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/.
ÿ Anonymous access http://www.safeproxy.org/.
ÿ Web privacy http://www.rewebber.de/.
ÿ Web anonymiser list http://mikhed.narod.ru/en/free_proxy/cgi-proxy.htm
ÿ JAP http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html


Cryptography & Encryption

æ All about RSA http://www.rsasecurity.com/.
æ Cryptography Archives http://www.kremlinencrypt.com/.
æ Cryptography links http://cryptography.org/freecryp.htm.
æ Cryptography Info http://world.std.com/~franl/crypto/.
æ DriveCrypt http://www.e4m.net/.
æ CCIPS http://www.cybercrime.gov/crypto.html.
æ Cryptography resource http://www.crypto.com/.
æ Bruce Schneier's operation http://www.counterpane.com
æ Huge Crypto archive http://www.cryptome.org
æ An upto date thread containing crypto links
http://www.security-forums.com/forum...pic.php?t=4761
æ Various info mainly on PGP http://www.skuz.net/.


Linux/BSD/UNIX

î http://www.linux.org.
î http://www.redhat.com .
î http://www.debian.org.
î http://linux.pagina.nl.
î http://www.linux.com.
î http://www.linux-mandrake.com/.
î http://www.slackware.com.
î http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/.
î http://www.suse.com/.
î http://linux.box.sk.
î http://www.linuxiso.org/.
î http://www.distrowatch.com/.
î http://www.freebsd.org.
î http://www.openbsd.org.
î http://www.netbsd.org.
î http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris...ies/index.html
î http://www.gentoo.org/
î http://www.turbolinux.com/
î http://www.lycoris.com/
î http://www.lindows.com
î http://www.trustix.net/
î http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
î http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/


Zines & Texts

ü Great UK Zine http://www.f41th.org/.
ü 2600 The hacker quarterly http://www.2600.com/.
ü Massive Tutorial selection http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials.
ü Online book collection http://www.maththinking.com/boat/booksIndex.html.
ü Internet FAQ archive http://www.faqs.org/.
ü The Linux documentation Project http://www.tldp.org/
ü Another fine member of the box network http://black.box.sk.
ü Even more info from the box network http://blacksun.box.sk.
ü Internet How To archive http://www.howtos.nl/.
ü 45,000 text files old skool style http://www.textfiles.com.
ü Linux Networking Overview http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/.
ü Currently the only Defacement mirror http://www.zone-h.org/.


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/
¿ Another comprehensive Trojan archive http://www.tlsecurity.net/amt.htm.
¿ 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/.


Tools

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/I...ragrouter.html
» The best OS fingerprinter http://www.sys-security.com/html/projects/X.html
» Fport port mapper
http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?...desc/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

» Kerio Personal Firewall - http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html
» ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonelabs.com/
» Tiny Personal Firewall - http://www.tinysoftware.com/
» BlackIce - http://blackice.iss.net/
» Sygate Personal Firewall Pro - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_pro.htm
» Agnitum Outpost - http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/
» Mcafee Personal Firewall -
http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/firewall/ov_firewall.asp
» Norton Personal Firewall - http://www.symantec.com/sabu/nis/npf/
» PrivateFirewall - http://www.privacyware.com/PF.html
» Armor2Net - http://www.armor2net.com/
» ETrust EZ Firewall - http://www.my-etrust.com/products/Firewall.cfm
» Freedom Firewall - http://www.freedom.net/products/firewall/index.html
» Preventon - http://www.freedom.net/products/firewall/index.html
» Steganos Online Sheild - http://www.steganos.com/en/sos/index.htm
» Kasperksy Anti-Hacker -
http://www.kaspersky.com/buyonline.html?chapter=964564
» Visnetic - http://www.deerfield.com/products/visnetic_firewall/
» Norman Personal Firewall - http://www.norman.com/products_npf.shtml

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...tID=1&um1ID=70
» LRP - http://www.linuxrouter.org/
» E-smith - http://www.e-smith.org/
» ClosedBSD - http://www.closedbsd.org/index.html%20
» 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.c...uctid=47&EID=0

Scene

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

ñ alt.hacking.
ñ alt.binaries.hacking.beginner.
ñ alt.computer.security.
ñ alt.security.
ñ alt.os.security.
ñ alt.security.pgp.
ñ alt.security.pgp.patches.
ñ comp.os.linux.security.
ñ comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.security.
ñ comp.security.unix.
ñ comp.security.pgp.backdoors.
ñ comp.security.unix.
ñ microsoft.public.security.
ñ microsoft.public.sqlserver.security.
ñ microsoft.public.win2000.security.


'Legal' Hacking

Ð Hack me http://loginmatrix.com/hackme/.
Ð Try2Hack http://www.try2hack.nl/.
Ð Hack3r/Roothack http://roothack.org/.
Ð Pull The Plug http://www.pulltheplug.com/.
Ð Root wars http://rootwars.org/.
Ð Hackers lab http://www.hackerslab.org/.
Ð Datafort http://hack.datafort.net/
Ð Arcanum, Hard! http://www.arcanum.co.nz/
Ð NGSec Challenge http://quiz.ngsec.biz:8080/

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.
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/u...ogramming.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/...php/index.html
Zend PHP tutorials http://www.zend.org/zend/tut/
Applied OO PHP http://www.horde.org/papers/kongress...sign_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/IisDe...nents/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/A..._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/.


Search Engines

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

I bet you didn't know there were so many


Others

¥ 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/.

Online at http://www.darknet.org.uk and http://www.udsl.com


Cheers ST

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Nice list! As one who is starting to learn about this area I have no doubt this
will come in handy. Will distribute this around as well and will give you
full credit


On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 22:06:34 +0100, Lord Shaolin wrote:

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Replace spam with news to contact me.

Could you please repost the list or tell me where to find it? Thanks!! bn
"Snake Plissken" <spam@takeoutthispart.level2.org> wrote in message
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bill norton wrote:
Do a search at groups.google.com

for the subject line:

Security, Hacking, Encryption, Programming and Various other
links [LONG]

Author: Lord Shaolin <abuse@127.0.0.1>

--
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Registered with The Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org/
Slackware 9.0 Kernel 2.4.22 i686 (GCC) 3.3
Uptime: 6 days, 20:19, 1 user, load average: 1.50, 1.67, 1.54

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:02:33 GMT, "bill norton"
<bnorton@cincinnatifan.com> wrote:

Security Links

§ Good upcoming 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.mksecure.com/defpw/.
§ 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


Privacy and Anonymity

ÿ All about privacy http://www.privacy.net.
ÿ Well known privacy/security portal http://www.cotse.com
ÿ Anonymity, privacy and security
http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/.
ÿ Free, anonymous web surfing http://www.anonymizer.com/.
ÿ IDSecure service http://www.idzap.com/.
ÿ News, information and action http://www.privacy.org/.
ÿ Sam Spade Tools http://www.samspade.org/t/.
ÿ International PGP homepage http://www.pgpi.org.
ÿ Encryptable web-mail http://www.hushmail.com/.
ÿ Anonymity software http://www.skuz.net/potatoware/.
ÿ REALLY delete your data http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/.
ÿ Anonymous access http://www.safeproxy.org/.
ÿ Web privacy http://www.rewebber.de/.
ÿ Web anonymiser list
http://mikhed.narod.ru/en/free_proxy/cgi-proxy.htm
ÿ JAP http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html


Cryptography & Encryption

æ All about RSA http://www.rsasecurity.com/.
æ Cryptography Archives http://www.kremlinencrypt.com/.
æ Cryptography links http://cryptography.org/freecryp.htm.
æ Cryptography Info http://world.std.com/~franl/crypto/.
æ DriveCrypt http://www.e4m.net/.
æ CCIPS http://www.cybercrime.gov/crypto.html.
æ Cryptography resource http://www.crypto.com/.
æ Bruce Schneier's operation http://www.counterpane.com
æ Huge Crypto archive http://www.cryptome.org
æ An upto date thread containing crypto links
http://www.security-forums.com/forum...pic.php?t=4761
æ Various info mainly on PGP http://www.skuz.net/.


Linux/BSD/UNIX

î http://www.linux.org.
î http://www.redhat.com .
î http://www.debian.org.
î http://linux.pagina.nl.
î http://www.linux.com.
î http://www.linux-mandrake.com/.
î http://www.slackware.com.
î http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/.
î http://www.suse.com/.
î http://linux.box.sk.
î http://www.linuxiso.org/.
î http://www.distrowatch.com/.
î http://www.freebsd.org.
î http://www.openbsd.org.
î http://www.netbsd.org.
î http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris...ies/index.html
î http://www.gentoo.org/
î http://www.turbolinux.com/
î http://www.lycoris.com/
î http://www.lindows.com
î http://www.trustix.net/
î http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
î http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/


Zines & Texts

ü Great UK Zine http://www.f41th.org/.
ü 2600 The hacker quarterly http://www.2600.com/.
ü Massive Tutorial selection http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials.
ü Online book collection
http://www.maththinking.com/boat/booksIndex.html.
ü Internet FAQ archive http://www.faqs.org/.
ü The Linux documentation Project http://www.tldp.org/
ü Another fine member of the box network http://black.box.sk.
ü Even more info from the box network http://blacksun.box.sk.
ü Internet How To archive http://www.howtos.nl/.
ü 45,000 text files old skool style http://www.textfiles.com.
ü Linux Networking Overview http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/.
ü Currently the only Defacement mirror http://www.zone-h.org/.


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/
¿ Another comprehensive Trojan archive
http://www.tlsecurity.net/amt.htm.
¿ 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/.


Tools

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/I...ragrouter.html
» The best OS fingerprinter
http://www.sys-security.com/html/projects/X.html
» Fport port mapper
http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?...desc/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

» Kerio Personal Firewall - http://www.kerio.com/us/kpf_home.html
» ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonelabs.com/
» Tiny Personal Firewall - http://www.tinysoftware.com/
» BlackIce - http://blackice.iss.net/
» Sygate Personal Firewall Pro -
http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_pro.htm
» Agnitum Outpost - http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/
» Mcafee Personal Firewall -
http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/firewall/ov_firewall.asp
» Norton Personal Firewall - http://www.symantec.com/sabu/nis/npf/
» PrivateFirewall - http://www.privacyware.com/PF.html
» Armor2Net - http://www.armor2net.com/
» ETrust EZ Firewall - http://www.my-etrust.com/products/Firewall.cfm
» Freedom Firewall -
http://www.freedom.net/products/firewall/index.html
» Preventon - http://www.freedom.net/products/firewall/index.html
» Steganos Online Sheild - http://www.steganos.com/en/sos/index.htm
» Kasperksy Anti-Hacker -
http://www.kaspersky.com/buyonline.html?chapter=964564
» Visnetic - http://www.deerfield.com/products/visnetic_firewall/
» Norman Personal Firewall - http://www.norman.com/products_npf.shtml

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...tID=1&um1ID=70
» LRP - http://www.linuxrouter.org/
» E-smith - http://www.e-smith.org/
» ClosedBSD - http://www.closedbsd.org/index.html%20
» 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.c...uctid=47&EID=0

Scene

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

ñ alt.hacking.
ñ alt.binaries.hacking.beginner.
ñ alt.computer.security.
ñ alt.security.
ñ alt.os.security.
ñ alt.security.pgp.
ñ alt.security.pgp.patches.
ñ comp.os.linux.security.
ñ comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.security.
ñ comp.security.unix.
ñ comp.security.pgp.backdoors.
ñ comp.security.unix.
ñ microsoft.public.security.
ñ microsoft.public.sqlserver.security.
ñ microsoft.public.win2000.security.


'Legal' Hacking

Ð Hack me http://loginmatrix.com/hackme/.
Ð Try2Hack http://www.try2hack.nl/.
Ð Hack3r/Roothack http://roothack.org/.
Ð Pull The Plug http://www.pulltheplug.com/.
Ð Root wars http://rootwars.org/.
Ð Hackers lab http://www.hackerslab.org/.
Ð Datafort http://hack.datafort.net/
Ð Arcanum, Hard! http://www.arcanum.co.nz/
Ð NGSec Challenge http://quiz.ngsec.biz:8080/

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.
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/u...ogramming.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/...php/index.html
Zend PHP tutorials http://www.zend.org/zend/tut/
Applied OO PHP
http://www.horde.org/papers/kongress...sign_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/IisDe...nents/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/A..._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/.


Search Engines

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

I bet you didn't know there were so many


Others

¥ 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/.




Regards,
Thomas

You know what to do.....
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