Online Courses and Learning Materials
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