Security Learning Resources

Books/Reading

Publishers

• No Starch Press - All Books are Consistently High Quality.
• Packt - Mixed Quality
• Leanpub - Mixed Quality
• O’Reilly - Generally High Quality

Specific Titles

• Reverse Engineering for Beginners - Free!

Resources (not books, but reading)

• Penetration Testing Execution Standard
• OWASP Web Testing Guide
• OWASP Mobile Testing Guide
• Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain
• MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Other

Humble Bundle Book Offers tend to be good values.

Courses

Free

• Cybrary
• Malware Unicorn RE Workshops
• opensecuritytraining.info
• Modern Binary Exploitation
• SamuraiWTF Course
• Metasploit Unleashed
• SANS CyberAces
• Max Kersten Binary Analysis Course
• PortSwigger Web Security Academy
• CS6265 - Georgia Tech Information Security Lab course, mostly binary exploitation focused.

Paid

• Codecademy - Freemium
• KhanAcademy - Freemium
• Offensive Security - Great Value

Test Environments/Games

Vulnerable VMs

• Metasploitable 2
• Vulnhub
• DVWS-Node

Target Networks

• Hack the Box
• Try Hack Me
• Offensive Security Proving Grounds
• Virtual Hacking Labs

Blue/Defense

• PCAP Exercises
• Honeynet Challenges
• Detection Lab (Deprecated)

Wargames

• OverTheWire
• UnderTheWire (Powershell Based)
• SANS Holiday Hack Challenge
• WeChall - Wargame aggregator

Lists Of Resources

• Hacking Challenge Sites