Any resources?

[Outlander413]

Hello forum dwellers.

I'm relatively new to this Operating system, actually, so new that its still downloading awaiting mounting.
I am interested in getting into... security testing, and am wondering if where all of you have learned all of your knowledge from.
Are there any good books that you can point me to? any online courses? forum posts? etc.

I would appreciate any crumble of information that could lead me in the right direction of learning the ins and outs of network integrity testing.

Currently i am running off linux mint, with backbox 4.0 on a bootable USB as a secondary OS. If it turns out Backbox is a wonderful OS would it be practical to use that as a permanent everyday operating system?


Thanks,
New forum member, Outlander.

[weVeg]

Hi outlander,
actually this is my last series of books, there are few books that could be "old" but very complete and useful...

Cracking Passwords Guide 1.1-[Dravet]-(2010)
Debian handbook
Dissecting the Hack Revised Edition-[Street-Nabors-Baskin-Carey]-(2010)
Hacking Exposed 6th-[McClure-Scambray-Kurtz]-(2009)
Hacking The Art of Exploitation 2nd-[Erickson]-(2008)
Introduction to Modern Cryptography-[Katz-Lindell]-(2007)
Metasploit The Penetration Tester's Guide-[Kennedy-O'Gorman-Kearns]-(2011)
Netcat Power Tools-[Kanclirz]-(2008)
Nmap Cookbook The Fat free Guide to Network Scanning-[Nicholas Marsh]
Cisco CCNA 2-3-4
Penetration Tester Open Source Toolkit 3rd-[Jeremy Faircloth]-(2011)
Practical Packet Analysis Using Wireshark To Solve Real World Network Problems 2nd-[Chris Sanders]-(2011)
SQL Injection Attacks and Defense-[Clarke]-(2009)
The Art of Intrusion-[Kevin Mitnick]-(2005)
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook 2nd-[Stuttard-Pinto]-(2011)
Web Hacking Day 1 - 2011
GNU/Linux Basic operating system
XSS Attacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense-[Fogie-Grossman-Hansen-Rager-Petkov]-(2007)

[ZEROF]

One of but not less important, after learning "how to use Linux" you can look on http://www.backbox.org/blog/penetration-testing-backbox.