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Ask HN: How to learn Cybersecurity?
What sites/resources/advice would you give someone who's interested in learning about cybersecurity. Every other day there's a new breach announced and there's an increasing demand for security engineers
- dylangs1030 12y agoYou need to roughly know desktop security (especially memory corruption, C/C++ insecurities), web application security, mobile application and networking security. Those are (again, roughly) the domains. If you want cybersecurity with web application testing (with overlap to mobile application testing), begin with The Web Application Hacker's Handbook. Best single treatise on the subject. You should look through this entire thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/wiki/start https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/wiki/start I also highly recommend the OSCP (Penetration Testing with Kali Linux) course and Cody Brocious' (daeken's) course called Breaker101, at breaker101.com. Good luck.
- wglb 12y agodylangs1030 comment is a good start. For a little more complete reference I point folks to 'tptacek's list at http://amzn.to/cthr46 http://amzn.to/cthr46
- sarciszewski 12y agoFor web applications: https://www.hackthissite.org https://www.hackthissite.org http://www.enigmagroup.org/ http://www.enigmagroup.org/ For offensive computer security: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~redwood/OffensiveComputerSecurity/lectures.html http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~redwood/OffensiveComputerSecurity/lec...
- RainManDetroit 12y agoHow about, if I can add to the question without changing it, ideas/paths to marketable skills and/or certs? What would a potential employer look for as essential foundations (before any obvious specialty offshoots)?
- crazypyro 12y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/netsecstudents/comments/2k03lk/before_starting_in_netsec_what_all_should_i_know/cllwsfy https://www.reddit.com/r/netsecstudents/comments/2k03lk/befo... This is a very nice reddit comment that explains some of the various foundational, necessary knowledge and where to learn more about them.