Resources
This will be a continual work in progress. All links and tools mentioned are for the purpose of ethical hacking, legal penetration testing, and security research. Use at your own risk. If you know of a resource that is missing please Submit Content and it will be added.
Exploit Research
Corelan Team
Exploit Research Megaprimer
Metasploit Unleashed
Forensic Distributions
Pen Test Distributions
BackBox
BackTrack
Blackbuntu
GnackTrackPentoo
Samurai WTF
Security Blogs
Dan Kaminsky's Blog
E-Spohn - Site of Spoonman
Irongeek.com
Krebs on Security
MatthewNeely.com
Metasploit/Rapid7 Blog
Network Security Blog
Room 362 - Rob Fuller (mubix)'s site
Schneier on Security - Bruce Schneier
SecManiac - Dave (ReL1K) Kennedy
Secure Ideas - Kevin Johnson
Securosis - Mike Rothman
spylogic.net - Tom Eston
TaoSecurity - Richard Bejtlich
Thoughtcrime Labs - Moxie Marlinspike
Uncommon Sense Security - Jack Daniel
Security Conferences
BlackHat (DC / Europe / Abudhabi / Las Vegas)
DefCon (Las Vegas)
HOPE (Hackers of Planet Earth) (NYC) 2600 sponsored
Information Security Summit (NE Ohio)
notacon (Cleveland)
RSA Conference
ShmooCon (Washington D.C)
ThotCon (Chicago)
Security Configurations for Operation Systems and Handhelds
The Center for Internet Security Benchmarks
NIST General Security Documents
NSA Security Configuration Guides
Security News
Security Podcasts
Exotic Liability
InfoSec Daily
Pauldotcom
Security Justice
Social-Engineer.org Podcast
Social Media Security
Vulnerable Distributions
Damn Vulnerable Linux
Damn Vulnerable Web App
De-ICE
Metasploitable
