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  • l0pht heavy industries - mudge, dildog, wed pond
  • cult of the dead cow - cDc
  • invisiblethings.org - Joanna's insights on hide 'n seek
  • route's gambling site - phrack, libnet, packetfactory. Need I say more?
  • snafu.org - old guy Marc's bikes, OpenBSD and retirement photos
  • Charles Stross - another old guy (net-wise), known SF writer, says a lot of things I tend to agree with most of the time
  • bruce... schneier, yes. If that doesn't ring a bell then you do not belong.
  • Packet Storm. Packet Storm Security, a huge collection of software, exploit code, and docs.
  • SecurityFocus. SecurityFocus web site (the bugtraq, vuln-dev, and pen-test home).
  • CVE Project. The Dictionary of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures at Mitre.
  • Security Tracker. Keep track of the latest vulnerabilities with this free on-line service.
  • OSVDB. An independent and open-source vulnerability database created by and for the community.
  • CVSS Project. Common Vulnerability Scoring System, the emerging standard for vunerability metrics.
  • Milw0rm. A well-mantained and up-to-date exploit collection for various operating systems.
  • ElseNot. The goal of this site is to publish an exploit for every MS Security Bulletin ever released.
  • Full-Disclosure. A non-moderated full-disclosure mailing list, for discussion of security issues.
  • Dailydave. Another interesting computer security mailing list, moderated by Dave Aitel.
  • WebAppSec. Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) and Web Security Mailing List.
  • Database Security. The web's leading resource for database security: very interesting information.
  • Pete Finnigan. Impressive Oracle and Oracle security information and free tools/scripts.
  • Pentest Ltd. Interesting security information and resources about Oracle and wireless security.
  • Rainbow Crack. Community project to distribute rainbow tables and provide on-line password audits.
  • Trifinite. Homepage of the Bluetraq Bluetooth Security Mailing List by Trifinite Group.
  • Bank Info Security. Homepage of the new Core Banking Application Security Mailing List.
  • OWASP. The Open Web Application Security Project. Useful information on application security.
  • Fravia. Fravia's web searching lore: useful hints and powerful tools to effectively search the web.
  • Honeynet. Honeynet Project: a non-profit research organization dedicated to information security.
  • CSRC. NIST Computer Security Division CSRC (Computer Security Resource Center) homepage.
  • SRR. Security Readiness Review evaluation scripts by US Department of Defense's IASE.
  • Googledorks. Noun 1. Slang. An inept or foolish person as revealed by Google. Don't miss it.
  • DOTU. Project DOTU, an useful undocumented Cisco IOS commands reference.
  • Hardapple. Apple Mac OS X security, auditing, hardening, pen-testing, privacy, and more.
  • NMRC. Nomad Mobile Research Centre by Simple Nomad, the Novell Netware bible and more.
  • Hacking AS/400. Homepage of the Hacking iSeries book, free information about AS/400 security.
  • Security.org. Extensive information on the evaluation of physical security systems.

  • Phrack Archives. Phrack, the hacker magazine by the community, for the community.
  • Uninformed. Magazine about security technologies, reverse engineering, and lowlevel programming.
  • AT&T labs. AT&T research labs homepage: lots of interesting projects.
  • LSD. LSD-PLaNET, the Last Stage of Delirium research group homepage.
  • THC. The Hacker's Choice official web site: software, papers, and much more.
  • Xfocus. Home of the Xfocus team: documents, programs, exploits, advisories, and forums.
  • Phenoelit. Welcome to Phenoelit, the land of packets, brute force, and misuse of trust.
  • Shmoo. Non-profit think-tank comprised of security professionals from around the world.
  • Inode. Security papers, programs, exploits, home of the Sarca rainbow tables (now closed).
  • S0ftpj. The official web site of my friends at S0ftpr0ject (and home of the BFi e-zine).
  • The Broken. This is a hacking videozine, a very interesting/artistic project.
  • Lcamtuf. Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf) homepage: very interesting research projects.
  • KF. Digitalmunition hosts Kevin Finisterre's advisories and computer security projects.
  • Skylined. Berend-Jan Wever aka SkyLined homepage: exploits, papers, and shellcoding.
  • Solar Eclipse. Solar's homepage: black hat exploits, documents, and programs.
  • Sh0k. Sh0k's interesting Windows projects, based on his stoolkit.lib and disx64.lib libraries.
  • P. Gutmann. Peter Gutmann's homepage, research from a professional paranoid.
  • o0o. Fyodor Yarochkin's homepage: information security, exploits, papers, tools, and more.
  • P. Biondi. Philippe Biondi's homepage, some interesting documents and programs (like scapy).
  • Stealth. Stealth's stuff: ssharp, exploits, networking, rootkits and speeches.
  • NGS Software. Interesting information about application-level vulnerability research.
  • Rootkit. Greg Hoglund's on-line rootkit magazine, an interesting security discussion forum.
  • DDZ. Dino A. Dai Zovi homepage, interesting software tools for wireless testing and more.
  • Foofus. This web site hosts some interesting security tools/papers by JoMoKun, fizzgig, and others.
  • JWA. An interesting homepage with some old but useful UNIX security tools.
  • RFID. Analysis of the Texas Instruments DST tag, a cryptographically enabled RFID transponder.
  • LIRC. A package that allows to decode and send infra-red signals of many remote controls.
  • Nothink. Matteo Cantoni's homepage: slides, publications, security, and other useful stuff.
  • X.25 zine. Russian X.25 zine, interesting (and almost up-to-date) reading.
  • Lodestar. Lodestar research group, australian X.25 hackers: articles, utils, and scans.

  • OpenBSD PF. This is the official homepage of the new OpenBSD Packet Filter.
  • Netfilter. Official homepage of the netfilter/iptables Linux 2.4 packet filter project.
  • FW-1.de. Information about Check Point VPN-1/Firewall-1, presented by AERAsec.
  • Nessus. A free, powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote security scanner.
  • OpenVAS. A GPL fork of the Nessus security scanner, previously known as GNessUs.
  • Snort NIDS. Snort, the open-source Network Intrusion Detection System.
  • Insecure. Nmap free stealth network port scanner, tools, and hacking by Fyodor.
  • Openwall. Information Security software for open environments, by Solar Designer.
  • Systrace. Intrusion detection/prevention through interactive policy generation for system calls.
  • Lcrack. Lepton's Crack for Windows and Linux, password cracker with interesting features.
  • SELinux. Security-Enhanced Linux, Mandatory Access Control (MAC) from NSA.
  • Hxdef. Homepage of the Hacker Defender Rootkit and Morphine PE module encryptor.
  • Airtools. BSD-Airtools, a suite of programs for wlan auditing, from dachb0den labs.
  • Kismet. Kismet wireless sniffer, one of the best 802.11b auditing tools.
  • XSS-Proxy. XSS-Proxy is an advanced Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) attack tool.

  • IOCCC. The International Obfuscated C Code Contest homepage. Voodoo magic.
  • Perlmonks. Perlmonks homepage: remember that Perl is a religion and check out Perl Poetry.
  • Secure Programming. Secure Programming for Linux and UNIX HOWTO (HTML version).
  • Insecure Programming. A nice collection of insecure code for didactical purposes, by gera.
  • Metasploit. Metasploit framework, win32 shellcode, opcode/jmp/function address search engine.
  • Juliano. A good collection of security-related documents, mostly about exploitation techniques.
  • Intel 80386. Intel 80386 Programmer's Reference 1986 (complete instruction set).
  • ELF documentation. Executable and Linkable Format specification (ASCII version).
  • GDB. GNU debugger, allows you to see what is going on inside another program while it executes.
  • The Dude. A debugger which resides in kernel memory and provides an alternative to ptrace(2).
  • Bastard. A disassembler -- or, more appropriately, a disassembly environment.
  • Boomerang. An attempt at a general, open-source, retargetable decompiler of binary files.
  • IDA Pro. A very cool multi-processor, Windows hosted disassembler and debugger.
  • VX Heaven. This site is dedicated to providing information about computer viruses.
  • iDEFENSE Labs. A collection of tools for vulnerability research and exploit development.
  • HT Editor. HT is a file editor/viewer/analyzer for executables, distributed under the GPL.
  • Splint. Secure Programming Lint, a tool for statically checking C programs for coding mistakes.
  • CCA. C Code Analyzer, a static analysis tool for detecting security problems in C source code.
  • Testdrive. Hewlett-Packard Test Drive: try the latest technologies over the Internet.
  • CC65. CC65 is a freeware C compiler for 6502 based systems (Commodore, Apple, Atari).
  • QCL. Quantum Computation Language, a programming language for quantum computers.
  • Brainfuck. Brainfuck is an 8-instruction Turing-complete programming language.
  • NPIET. An esoteric stack-oriented language where the programs are works of modern art.
  • Esoteric. A fairly big collection of esoteric programming languages written by DM.
  • TLK. The Linux Kernel, a very well-written document about Linux internals.

  • Cryptome. Cryptography and Digital Privacy: the best resource on the Internet.
  • Cartome. Spatial and geographic documents on privacy, cryptography, and intelligence.
  • IACR. International Association for Cryptologic Research official web site.
  • Cypherpunks. Cypherpunks archive at soda.berkeley.edu: PGP, remailers, rants, and tools.
  • Cipherwar. Cipherwar information warfare news web site. Interesting stuff.
  • Crypto. Matt Blaze's cryptography resource on the web: very interesting papers.
  • Riot.EU.org. Riot anonymous remailer and pseudonymous service, with interesting docs.
  • Freenet. Free Network Project, the technology against censorship on the Internet.
  • Tor. An anonymous Internet communication system for TCP-based applications.
  • Free Haven. This project aims to deploy a distributed, anonymous, persistent data storage.
  • GNUPG. The GNU Privacy Guard (a free OpenPGP implementation).
  • TrueCrypt. Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux.
  • B. Jenkins. Bob Jenkin's web site, about math and crypto. Very interesting stuff.
  • P. Barreto. An excellent resource about cryptography: lots of interesting docs and more.
  • Spylife. Spy equipment: cameras, encryption systems, night vision scopes, and more.
  • Spyworld. Another spy and surveillance equipment site: a very rich catalog.

  • OpenSS7. Open-source project aimed to produce a robust SS7 and SIGTRAN stack for Linux.
  • MobiBug. A new discussion mailing list about the security of mobile terminal systems.
  • ITU-T. Free on-line archive of ITU-T Recommendations, very interesting telephony information.
  • VoIP Info. The VoIP Wiki, an interesting reference guide to all things related to VoIP.
  • Vovida. A forum for open-source software used in datacom and telecom environments.
  • VOIPSA. The Voice over IP Security Alliance aims to fill the void of VoIP security related resources.
  • VoIP Testing. A summary of the VoIP security testing procedures and tools compiled by Linux-VoIP.
  • Vomit. Voice Over Misconfigured Internet Telephones, a nice utility with the worst name.
  • Asterisk. An open-source PBX (Private Branch eXchange) based on the Linux OS.
  • VoIPong. Official homepage of the advanced Voice over IP sniffer and call detector.
  • Dundi. Distributed Universal Number Discovery, a PTP system for locating VoIP gateways.
  • IPTel. The on-line reference for Internet telephony, home of the SIP Express Router.
  • Sys-Security. VoIP (in)security advisories, papers, and presentations by the Sys-Security Group.
  • Symternals. Information about the internals of Symbian OS and related security research.
  • Old School Phreak. Interesting web site about phreaking: audio, text, and video philes.
  • World Payphones. This site hosts a big collection of payphones images from all around the world.
  • Dex Page. Here you can download some useful telephony programs, like SimScan.
  • SIM-EMU. SIM card emulator, a nice toy for playing with cellular phones and networks.
  • Vidstrom. Interesting web page with some security tools for cellular phones, worth trying.
  • Blacksphere. The goal of this project is to document the details of the complete DCT3 hardware.
  • MADos. MADos is a free, open-source operating system for nokia DCT3 phones.
  • Gammu. The Gammu project: applications, scripts, and drivers used for managing cell phones.

  • The BOFH. The original Bastard Operator From Hell complete, by Simon Travaglia.
  • The Register. The new official home of the mighty Bastard Operator From Hell.
  • The Jargon File. The Jargon File homepage, mantained by Eric S. Raymond.
  • UNIX-Haters. UNIX-Haters mailing list and handbook official homepage.
  • Rotten. ROTTEN DOT COM: when hell is full, the dead will walk on the earth.
  • BME. Body Modification E-zine, the biggest and best online bod-mod site since 1994.
  • Info Anarchy. Which future do you want to live in? Interesting news for freedom-supporters.
  • Suicide Girls. Pin-up punk rock and goth girls: pictures, journals, and videos.
  • Philosomatika. 100% goa and psychedelic trance mp3 stream (broadband needed).
  • Deathrow. Beave's OpenVMS cluster (DAHMER, MANSON, and RAMIREZ).
  • Textfiles. A glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by ASCII's 128 chars.
  • Fucked Company. Official lubricant of the new economy: rumors and interesting information.
  • Circuit Board. Easy printed circuit board fabrication, using laser printer toner transfer.
  • 20Q.net. An interesting experiment of artificial intelligence: a learning system to play with.
  • Porn Toolkit. Free porn for everyone: porntoolkit and crawler, both written in Python.
  • Pornzilla. Free tools for surfing porn with Firefox, the best porn browser outta here.
  • Hack Furby. Interesting site devoted to investigating the geek-appeal of the Furby toy.
  • (C)DNE. Copyright Does Not Exist, a remarkable book written by Linus Walleij.
  • Internet Archive. The Internet Wayback Machine, universal access to human knowledge.
  • CHSP. The Computer History Simulation Project (the SIMH homepage).
  • MUSCLE Project. Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment.
  • OpenVMS Documentation. Official HP (ex-Digital) OpenVMS systems documentation pages.