BSADD Blog: Computer Security

Posted on June 20, 2020  •  2 minutes  • 258 words

So, yesterday, we hosted a webinar about “Computer security”. There we had Sazzadur Rahaman bhai, Mahdi Mashrur Matin bhai and Kawser bhai. All of them have years of experience in computer security either working as a researcher or a practitioner. You might have seen the webinar. There they shared a lot of resources, from where we can start our journey in computer security. I have listed these resources and I am sharing it with you. you are welcome to share more resources and point out mistakes in the comment section.

Online Courses

• Cybersecurity nano degree from udacity
• Stanford University Cryptography course
• For amazing courses
• For good video tutorials
• Paid course from udemy

Books

• Penetration testing: A hands-on introduction to hacking – (Van Eeckhoutte, Peter_ Weidman, Georgia)
• Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide (Rafay Baloch)
• The Hacker Playbook 2

Pentesting Practice

• https://pentesterlab.com/
• https://www.pentesteracademy.com/ (also helpful for OSCP exam preparation)

Learning About Vulnerabilities

• OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities
• Exploit-db for knowing about current vulnerabilities
• NIST website for knowing about current vulnerabilities

Frameworks

• Metasploit
• NIST Framework

Fresh Graduate Certifications

• Comptia Security
• OSCP Exams 1 , OSCP Exams 2
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
• Elearnsecurity exams

Very Good Online Communities

• https://www.cybrary.it/

Communities/Blogs

• https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/
• https://hackforums.net/
• http://www.antionline.com/
• https://www.wilderssecurity.com/

Security News Sites

• Beeping Computer
• SOPHOS
• Dark Reading
• Krebs on Security

Podcast

• Security Weekly

For CTF

• HackTheBox
• Hacker101

Bug Bounty

• Hacker One
• Bug Crowd

Now, these are just raw resources. In the webinar they also talked about how to use them and how to step by step build up your security career. For more details, watch our webinar.