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Resources for CTFs

General CTF platforms

Web Exploitation

Online Platforms:

Other resources:

Active Directory

Github Repo:

Other resources:

Cryptography

Online Platforms:

Tools:

Books:

  • Serious Cryptography (No starch Press, 2017)

Digital Forensics

Youtube Channels:

Reverse Engineering & Malware Analysis

Online Platforms:

Github Repos:

CTF Competitions:

Tools:

Other resources:

Binary Exploitation (pwn)

Online Platforms:

Github Repo:

Offensive Security (Penetration Testing & Red Teaming)

Online Platforms:

Learning Platforms:

Books:

  • Black Hat Go (No Starch Press, 2019)
  • Foundations of Information Security (No Starch Press, 2019)
  • Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fifth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2018)
  • The Hacker Playbook 3 (Peter Kim, 2018)
  • Pentesting Azure Application (No Starch Press, 2018)
  • Attacking Netwok Protocols (No Starch Press, 2018)
  • Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook (Packt publisher, 2018)
  • Gray Hat C# (No Starch Press, 2017)

Other resources:

Defensive Security (Blue Team)

Other resources:

Hardware

Online Platforms:

Youtube Channel:

Industrial Control Systems (ICS)/Operational Technologies (OT)

Github Repo:

Cloud Security

Github Repo:

Online Platform:

OSINT

Online Platforms:

Other resources:

Blockchain

Online Platforms:

Other resources:

Other Cybersecurity Resources

Blogs

Community Events

Podcasts

Trainings

Youtube Channels

Magazines

Reddit

Github Repos

Write-ups