Hacking is basically knowing about how things function and knowing why things function the way they do.
Forums For Hackers And Security Professionals
Nobody knows it all, you always learn, you learn from others: never shy away from asking, when in doubt. Forums are ideal learning pads where hackers, both beginners as well as pros go and learn from people better than themselves. There are a countless number of ethical and non ethical hackers readily available to help you out courtesy these forums, encouraging a healthy learning process.
1. Stackoverflow for security professionals
2. http://darksat.x47.net/
3. http://forums.securityinfowatch.com/
4. http://forums.cnet.com/spyware-viruses-security-forum/
5. http://www.hackforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=47
Vulnerability Databases And Resources
These databases provide information on recently detected vulnerabilities. These public platforms offer plethora of information for hackers to gain competitive edge with respect to newer vulnerabilities. They can then exploit, avoid or fix the vulnerability according to their needs and ambitions.
6. http://www.exploit-db.com/
7. http://1337day.com/
8. http://securityvulns.com/
9. http://www.securityfocus.com/
10. http://www.osvdb.org/
11. http://www.securiteam.com/
12. http://secunia.com/advisories/
13. http://insecure.org/sploits_all.html
14. http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/published/
15. http://nmrc.org/pub/index.html
16. http://web.nvd.nist.gov
17. http://www.vupen.com/english/security-advisories/
18. http://www.vupen.com/blog/
19. http://cvedetails.com/
20. http://www.rapid7.com/vulndb/index.jsp
21. http://oval.mitre.org/
Product Specific Vulnerability Information
These official websites of high-profile vendors provide heaps of information on current and upcoming security flaws and fixes.
22. Red Hat Security and other updates Site: This page lists advisories for all products served by the Red Hat Network. Advisories for Red Hat JBoss Middleware are available on the Software Downloads pages for each product.
23. Microsoft Products Security Bulletin: You can search security bulletins by product or component, and filter results by configuring the release date range with a start and end day.
24. Apache Foundation Products Security Repository: The Apache Software Foundation takes a very active stance in eliminating security problems and denial of service attacks against the Apache HTTP server.
25. Ubunut Software Security Center: Canonical's official website providing Ubuntu specific vulnerabilty information.
26. Linux Security Repository: LWN.net offers several security-related resources, including the security alert database, the vulnerability database, and the weekly edition security page.
Author : Shivam Kotwalia, CodeKill
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