Resources

A little learning is a dangerous thing

Collection of resources on a variety of topics that I’ve found useful over the years (Continuously updated).

Kali Linux
- Linux Distribution full of various security tools useful for penetration testing
Remnux
- Linux Distribution with a number of security tools, useful for DFIR.
Flare VM
- Metapackage for Windows DFIR tools
Pentesters Framework
- Python Script to auto-magically handle installing and managing various security tools (mostly for pentesting)

Hack the Box
- Capture the Flag site with vpn access to vulnerable network, crackme challenges, and reversing challenges.
Pico CTF
Vulnhub
- Website with a ton of vulnerable virtual machines for you to practice on
Metasploitable
- Virtual Machine with many vulnerabilities that have exploits available in metasploit.
TryHackMe

Windows VMs
- Variety of windows virtual machines. They stop working after 30 days so create a snap shot and just revert. Password is Passw0rd!
SysInternals
- Suite of useful windows tools.
SysMon
- Part of the sysinternals suite. A tool to add more robust logging for windows. Especially useful with a good config and logs being sent to a log management system like ELK, Splunk, etc.
- Good Sysmon Config
Process Hacker
- Like task manager in windows but more useful.

Nuzzel
- I’m use twitter combined with Nuzzel as a pretty effective notification system for cyber news. Nuzzel connects to your twitter account and notifies you when 3 (adjustable threshold) or more people that you follow retweet the same thing.
Unsupervised Learning
- Bi-Weekly Newsletter for the top security news and technical news
Cyberscoop = Daily Threat Reports —-