DOdonalhunt·Oct 12, 2023
In Ask HN: Guidance starting an infosec careeer from scratchonlurking
awesome-infosec
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onlurking / awesome-infosec
awesome-infosec
A curated list of awesome infosec courses and training resources.
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A curated list of awesome infosec courses and training resources.
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Links: https://github.com/onlurking/awesome-infosec Books: This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race https://www.amazon.com/dp/1635576059/ Social…
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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5 sourcesLinks:
https://github.com/onlurking/awesome-infosec
Books:
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race https://www.amazon.com/dp/1635576059/
Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking https://www.amazon.com/dp/111943338X/
PTFM: Purple Team Field Manual https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LJV1QCD/
I issue these to all new cyber hires in a senior infosec role.
For someone coming fresh into building infosec programs from scratch, I recommend
Creating an Information Security Program from Scratch https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367554658/
If you want to go splunking for publicly exposed vulnerabilities, Shodan occasionally runs personal account specials: http://shodan.io/
If you put an email address in your profile, I’d be happy to gift a book bundle to you.
In Ask HN: Cyber Security Books, Links and Videos>Anyone ever seen a repository of tasks? I’m imagining finding something I’m interested in and subscribing to the daily tasks for that topic?
This is such a cool idea!
I think things like Awesome X lists for X technology to learn[0] or Fullstack Python are examples of this, and obviously for cooking/recipes this is a solved problem, but the idea of a github-like fork/clone system for general public todo lists is really motivating
[0]. e.g. https://github.com/onlurking/awesome-infosec
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