Infosec Resources

mach1982

Hi all , I hope mods don't me mind me setting up this thread. I've decided that I want to have the career in infosec, and want share some resources I have found , book , youtube links and links .

I just bought very goog book on pen testing.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593275641/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Joe Exotic

mach1982 wrote: »

Hi all , I hope mods don't me mind me setting up this thread. I've decided that I want to have the career in infosec, and want share some resources I have found , book , youtube links and links .

I just bought very goog book on pen testing.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593275641/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hey great career choice :pac:

Is there a particular area you are interested in ?

Web application, perimeter, wireless

Whats your background?

Many successful Pen testers have started in other areas so if you can tell us what your experience is like it will be easier to advise you

mach1982

murphk wrote: »

Hey great career choice :pac:

Is there a particular area you are interested in ?

Web application, perimeter, wireless

Whats your background?

Many successful Pen testers have started in other areas so if you can tell us what your experience is like it will be easier to advise you

Sorry, I didn't get back sooner , was at the CoderDojo Conference this weekend .

I think the area I like to focus on would be wireless and IoT. Over years I found most people prefer functionality over security , they just want a thing to work and see security as an inconvenience and are surprised when data is compromised , and people love IoT but that fridge that tells that milk is sour , a doorway to access your network .

I currently work doing level 1/ 1.5 IT support , I have done that for just over 9 years , about 18 months after I started I lost my father who was my best friend and bit if hacker himself always tinkering with things and I think was alive today would be building Arduino and raspberry pi power devices . It is only in the last 18 months that I feel like I'm ready to move on .

I have over years dabbled with of a number programming languages , Java, C, C++, Perl , PHP , HTML5 JavaScript , MySQL , Bash , Python ,Windows Batch etc , and for while I thought I wanted to be web developer , but then came along Mr Robot and sparked my interest in hacking again .

I have been interested hacking for years ever since I got my first proper windows 95 PC, I would read up online about hacking but I never had the confidence to try any of it. I didn't do too well in my leaving and did not get any of the Computer Science Courses I wanted. I was able to get into a Science course in Tallaght , and in the second year, I decided to specialise in Physics , mainly because we got learn C, but found I liked it . I was only able to go Diploma level , and my project had a hacking element to monitor the college network and to try and decode the signal travelling down the network cable using an oscilloscope , I now know that would never work . I also knew I wanted to do computer science and found that my Diploma was a way in , I was accepted into 2nd year of a NUI Maynooth science degree, In 4th year I specialised in computer science . My project once again had a hacking element by using namp with Perl to find what computers in the lab were logging to Linux,(scanned to find port 22 open), so we could run updates more efficiently as the computers were dual boot and in a few second boot into windows before admin had to select Linux .

About 4 and half years I got involved with the Coder Dojo Foundation, I a found one Dojo and mentor at another .

I've used Linux fro about 16 years , and it been my primary OS for about 10, I was Ubuntu fan , bun since unity I moved to Mint .

mach1982

Just realised I could have got it from Eason

http://www.easons.com/p-2995750-penetration-testing.aspx

and would been cheaper .

mach1982

Another good book got yesterday already on chapter 4,

Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kali-Linux-Assuring-Security-Penetration/dp/1785888420

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