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Learning Resources For Hacking And Pentesting


In this article, I'm going to provide you a list of resources which I have found very useful. I don't remember all of them from top of my head so I might miss some. This list will be updated on usual basis. Hope you'll find some good stuff to learn. If you have got suggestions leave them down below in the comments section.

Free Hands on Labs:

1. Hack The Box - live machines to hack your way around. Besides boxes they have awesome challenges and great labs to try out.
2. TryHackMe - great way to learn pentesting while doing it. Lots of machines to hack and lots of ground to cover.
3. Portswigger Web Security Academy - learn web application pentesting.

Free Training (Mostly Introductory stuff):

1. Tenable University - training and certification on Nessus etc.
2. Palo Alto Networks - Palo Alto Networks offers an abundance of resources to prepare for there certifications. The training is free but the exams cost.
3. Open P-TECH - has an introductory course on Cybersecurity Fundamentals.
4. IBM Security Learning Academy - has many courses but focused on IBM security services and 
products.
5. Cisco Networking Academy - not all courses are free but Introduction to Cybersecurity and Cybersecurity Essentials are free.
6. AWS Training and Certification - has some free cloud security training courses.
7. Metasploit Unleashed - Free Online Ethical Hacking Course - Offensive Security's free online course on metasploit.
8. Coursera and Edx - you already know about them.

Blogs:

1. HackTricks - This is simply an awesome blog just visit it and you'll fall in love.
2. pentestmonkey - I visit it most of the time for one-liner reverse shells they are awesome.

Writeups:

1. 0xdf

YouTube:

1. ippsec - an awesome YouTube channel with tons of information in every video. New video comes out weekly as soon as the machine on hackthebox expires. https://ippsec.rocks for video searching
2. xct - short walkthroughs on hackthebox machines.
3. Cristi Vlad - advice and content on pentesting and python.
4. LiveOverflow - reverse engineering on steroids.
5. SANS Pen Test Training - SANS institute webinars and talks.
6. VbScrub - great pentesting videos.
7. BinaryAdventure - great pentesting and reverse engineering videos.
8. GynvaelEN - great videos and talks about CTFs and pentesting.

GitHub Repos:

1. PayloadsAllTheThings - heaven of hackers.
2. Pentest Monkey - reverse shells and more.
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