Useful Links /

Online Courses and Learning Materials

  1. Scripting
  2. Video courses
  3. Walkthroughs and writeups
  4. Textbooks

Hacksplaining - The basics of hacking with interactive examples and short quizzes

GTFOBins - A website that shows possible privilege escalation vectors through SUID/GUID binaries

OWASP Top 10 - OWASP’s list of the most critical Cybsersecurity risks

excess-xss - A comprehensive guide to Cross Site Scripting attacks

Portswigger SQL Injection - An excellent writeup of SQL Injection techniques, from the people who brought you Burp Suite! Includes a great cheat sheet

AWS UK-OFFICIAL Quickstart - AWS’ Template for an Official-rated cloud network. A good example of secure cloud infrastructure! Scraping Club - A great website full of web scraping challenges

Enumerating Active Directory - An interesting article on common commands when poking around a Windows Domain Controller

Burp Suite Tutorial from Comparitech

Scripting

Simple Bash Scripting - A nice guide to writing basic bash scripts

Bash with arguments - A guide to passing data to your script

Python with arguments - Command line arguments in a python script

Video courses

Udemy - A large catalogue of Cybersecurity courses

LinkedIn Learning - Cybersecurity Foundations - A course by Malcolm Shore, with more courses on his page

LinkedIn Learning - Python for Automation - A course by Sam Pettus, covering the basics of web scraping, Python HTTP requests, and more

Udemy Automation - Another automation course

Computerphile Password Cracking - A brilliant explanation of password cracking (featuring plenty of sexy GPUs)

Computerphile SQL Injection - A great visual explanation of SQL Injection

Computerphile Diffie-Hellman - A gorgeous visual explanation of a popular key exchange algorithm for all you cryptography nerds

CompTIA Exam Prep - A (long) video that goes over the crucial information for the CompTIA+ Qualification - even if you’re not studying for it, this video is a great intro to networking!

Walkthroughs and writeups

Ippsec - A YouTube channel dedicated to walkthroughs of HackTheBox and other challenges

Juice Shop Solutions - A comprehensive list of solutions for the Juice Shop Challenges

Jack Barradell-Johns - Excellent writeups from our former vice-president!

WireGuard Setup - Set up your own VPN network with WireGuard!

Textbooks

Linux Pocket Guide by Daniel J Barrett - A detailed list of the most useful Linux commands, and how to use them!

Web Application Hackers Handbook by Stuttard and Pinto - An incredibly detailed book with demonstrations of a wide range of exploits

Network Security Assessment by Chris McNab - Another highly detailed book focusing on network security

Red Team Field Manual by Ben Clark - A Red Teamer’s reference guide