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Links - Sites\Security

www.securityrisk.org

This sites main goal is to provide security information to help the average user to patch operating system flaws. Based on the amount of forum messages, it is a relatively new one. (a friends site)

www.toolcrypt.org

Toolcrypt is a site that focuses on tools for windows and linux (unix) platforms. Pretty impressive ideas and just wondering what the non-crippled versions really are capable of.

www.secureroot.com

SecureRoot is a security-portal with lots of pointers to different resources, like hacking sites, security sites and so on. Quite clean site, and appears well structured. The site also has a forum, but it was down when reviewing the site.

www.windowsecurity.com

WindowsSecurity is a site dedicated to security-related issues with Microsoft server-products, containing articles and tutorials, software categories and a nice whitepaper section.

www.infosyssec.org

This site has loads of links to different sites and resources. It also lists usual mailinglists, vulnerability databases, search engines, antivirus- and OS/software-vendors with links to their patch-pages.

www.sans.org

SANS offers lots of seminars and training-sessions. It also has certification paths that one could follow. It has nice resources available that students/security persons have written, and it has the TOP-20 vulnerabilities listed that most likely are the common reasons for security- breaches if services are publicly available.

www.cert.org - www.cert.fi

CERT is a computer security incident response "team", having local sites around the world. This site reports world-wide if there is any major vulnerabilities spotted that should be fixed. It also has information how to deal with incidents and how to follow best practices to avoid unnecessary compromise.

www.securityfocus.com

This has been an excellent site and hopefully it stays that way and offers free service to the community. Symantec bought Securityfocus and is selling alert-information a few days ahead to companies with fixing information before the information gets released to the public. Hmmm, do I smell something rotten in this? Oh well, if the free services stay, this is overally a nice site. You can search for vulnerabilities, participate in many mailinglists & learn more about several areas (some of them being incident response, forensics, penetration testing and so on). It also has lots of articles/papers published.

www.tietoturva.org

This is a site for Finnish Information Security Association, one of its purposes being to promote it's members educational status in the security-field. They have some basic resources available. This probably mainly interests finns, because the site is in finnish.

www.net-security.org


This site collects some interesting tidbits into their page, news from the world. They also have lots of book-reviews so that might be a place to look for when considering buying a book, it might have a review done on this site. It also lists some vulnerabilities and newly released security-related tools.

www.nmrc.org

Nomad Mobile Research Centre, this group concentrates on security research. They have some interesting papers and projects going on, good FAQs about hacking several things and provide some tools. The quality is good, and they include welcome humour into the pieces of information they provide.

www.securiteam.com

SecuriTeam is formed by a small group of people from Beyond Security. It is a security-portal that has quite recent and interesting information posted about vulnerabilities, news, tools & papers. One thing that makes this a good site is that they give their expertise in commenting on the information they post. Something that many sites lack.

www.packetstormsecurity.nl

This is a huge site mirrored around the world. It contains lots of papers & publications, and this is one of of the places to come to when you need to find an exploit or specific tool. They also provide links to other sites that could be useful to you.

www.security-protocols.com

This is a semi-interactive portal that concentrates on security. It posts some of the latest happenings in the security-field and contains some sections for tools, tutorials and documents. It also has links to other security-sites and so on.

www.cgisecurity.org

The site focuses mainly on web-security and lists vulnerabilities found on web-servers and technologies like PHP, and so on. It gives good pointers to certain web-servers and applications from the security point of view.

www.blackhat.com

This is the homepage for the Blackhat Briefings. They have a lot of resources on the pages in form of presentations. Of course this material acts only as presentation material, but should give clues where to look for more information on a specific topic.

razor.bindview.com

RAZOR is a team of security researchers around the world. The site has lots of nice tools available and there are also lots of papers, presentations & advisories the group has made. Overally a clean, nice site.

www.ebcvg.com

This is a security-site containing lots of different articles and tutorials regarding security, virii, cryptography and hacking. The site also has own editorials/articles posted and a "security"-shop.

www.infosecwriters.com

A site dedicated for papers and articles written by security-minded people. It also has some other resources, like honeynet-related stuff and forensics. It also has a nice library of documents.

www.security-forums.com

Security-Forums contains many forums with specific topics. If you are interested in swapping security viewpoints with other people around the world via your web-browser, this is one of those places.