Resources

The list below are relevant resources that the COAR team utilizes:

Security Tool Sets

NMap	Kali	Nikto
Nessus	Metasploit	Metasploitable
VirtualBox	OWASP Top Ten	OWASP ZAP
SQLMap	w3af	Burp Suite
OpenVAS

 

Cyber Terminology Resources

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies Glossary	SANS Glossary
Tech Terms Glossary	The University of Texas at Austin - Information Technology Services Glossary
OWASP Glossary	Everything you wanted to know about Tor

 

Cyber News

Homeland Security Newswire	TechNewsWorld
SANS Newsletters	SC Magazine
GCN News	Information Week Dark Reading
The Hacker News	Threat Post

 

Vulnerability Tracking and Reporting

ICS-CERT	US-CERT
MS-ISAC	CVE - Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures
Verisign Cyber Security Intelligence	Offensive Security Public Exploit Database
Rapid7 Public Vulnerability and Exploit Database

 

Interactive Learning Modules

Hak5	Smash the Stack	Hack This Site	INFOSEC Institute	Facebook CTF Open Source
OWASP	Damn Vulnerability Web Application	OWASP - WebGoat Project	Hacking - Lab	Metasploit - Unleashed
Kali	Leap Courses	Cyber Security 101	Cyber Securty 201	UDEMY
MIT Open Courseware	Coursera	Cybrary	Project Ideas Issues	Project Ideas Wiki
Cyber Degrees - Free Online Courses	Cyber Degrees - The Big List	Open Security Training	VulnHub	Wargames
n00bs CTF Labs	Backdoor	Pwnable	picoCTF	Embedded Security CTF
Reversing	Tor	pwn0	RingZer0	Hellbound Hackers
Hacker Challenges	Bright Shadows	Mod-x	Nmap	HackerTest
NetForce	Security Override	Shell Storm CTF	Practice CTF List

 

Reddit Channels

/r/netsecstudents - netsec for students (*this is probably be the best place to start for beginners*)	r/netsec/ - network security	/r/blackhat - Hackers on Steroids	/r/computerforensics - IR Archaeologists
/r/crypto - Cryptography news and discussion	/r/Cyberpunk - High-Tech Low-Lifes	/r/lockpicking - Popular Hacker Hobby	/r/Malware - Malware reports and information
/r/onions - Things That Make You Cry	/r/privacy - Orwell Was Right	/r/pwned - "What Security?"	/r/REMath - Math behind reverse engineering
/r/ReverseEngineering - Binary Reversing	/r/rootkit - Software and hardware rootkits	/r/securityCTF - CTF new and write-ups	/r/SocialEngineering – social engineering tactics
/r/sysadmin - Overworked Crushed Souls	/r/vrd - Vulnerability Research and Development	/r/xss - Cross Site Scripting