Re: Security Basics!

[nate <nate () nullpacket net>]

There are many good places that cover tutorial and walk throughs but the
most important thing is to test those skills as you develop them. For
this I highly suggest you check out www.smashthestack.org and its
wargames. They offer many different wargames of varying difficulty and
they cover a large range of challenges. Some of the basic concepts you
can work on are:

- Buffer Overflows
- Format String Vulnerabilities
- Md5 Collisions
- Adjacement Memory Overflow
- Off by 1 errors
- Brainfuck programming language
- Many various programming challenges

There is a very active community on IRC, especially for the first
game which is called IO. You can find more info from their website or
talk with people at irc.smashthestack.org in #IO


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:23:44AM -0000, jackson1 () hotmail com wrote:
> Hello! 
>
> Can you please point me to good websites where i can learn the basics of computer security. Video tuts would be good. 
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jk


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