Good resources on security, hacking etc? [closed]

Answer 1

Try Simpson Garfinkel's book on web security first.

Answer 2

For web hacking I recommend reading the book The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws (very good book with lots of examples. It also shows you the tools which will get you started).

Also for web hacking I recommend completing and understanding all the challenges you can solve by downloading the WebGoat

Answer 3

I liked the Web Security Testing Cookbook. Some non-Windows stuff in there. The focus is on testing and using tools to find problems.

Answer 4

I think what you'll need would be to join some hackers community which would provide many missions where you'd have to find the exploits yourself.... understand that if you have learn hacking you'd have to hack something...... www.enigmagroup.org would be an useful one... www.securitytube.net from here you can get videos on almost every security related issue...

Answer 5

Subscribe to Schneier on Security. It's a great security blog.

Answer 6

A good starting point for a web developper would be the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). They have a lot of ressources on the subject of Web Application Security and on some on application security in general. You can get some of the wisdom of that side in book form.