RE: penetration tester advice

["Balwant Rathore" <balwant () mahindrabt com>]

Hi Mehmet,

It takes some time to learn Penetration testing; you can start with
followings:
Subscribe to yahoo PenTest group and securityfocus PenTest list
To subscribe from yahoo PenTest group send a mail to
pentest-subscribe () yahoogroups com and pen-test-subscribe () securityfocus com
for Sec Focus list.

Visit this: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pentest
Group also meet locally in various cities and domain experts share their
knowledge
You can get the presentations of previous meetings from this
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PenTest/files/Presentation-Archives
http://www.ausejo.net/seguridad/conferencia.htm

Feel free to ask your doubts in these lists.
Read these guides
1. Breaking into computer networks from the Internet by roelof () sensepost com
2. The MH DeskReference Version 1.2 Written/Assembled by Rhino9 Team
3. Auditing Your Firewall Setup by Lance Spitzner, 12 December, 2000
4. The Diary Of A Black Hat Hacker Gerald R. Patterson III
5. Hacks explained
6. A Step by Step guide to SQL Injection by Balwant Rathore

Further you can also read OSSTMM but I will not recommend this for you since
you are a beginner.
Wait for some time yahoo PenTest group is writing a complete reference guide
for penetration tester.

That's all for now, till later :-)

Sincerely,
Balwant Rathore, CISSP
Moderator PenTest group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pentest


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