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• Hacking the Linux 2.6 Kernel Part One. It isn't just for geniuses. Honest! Added bonus: written by two young lady hackers. Yes, hacking is for women, too.
• Hacking the Linux 2.6 Kernel Part Two. Another tutorial written by women hackers.
• http://www.linuxchix.org/ Where the women hackers gather and code cool stuff. Men allowed, but only if polite.

Free shell accounts:

• Freeshell.org -- the oldest and biggest!
• http://www.cyberspace.org/
• http://www.nyx.net/

Cryptography

If you are new to cryptography, you can make a good start by reading Crypto by Steven Levy. The book is fun read, tells about the lives of the people who made cryptographic discoveries, and along the way you know why the knapsack problem and many other fun and entertaining math problems are central to cryptography.
	Next, you may want to jump straight to the surprisingly easy and fun basic math. Modern cryptography is based upon decision problems, meaning problems that have an answer or either yes, no, or "I can't tell!!!" "Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness" is brilliant, yet easy to read and understand.

Cool stuff

• http://www.malware.com The best place to find demonstrations of vulnerabilities on the IE browser.
• http://www.hackerplayground.com
• http://www.linuxnewbie.org The name says it all.
• http://isc.sans.org/ Internet Storm Center
• Computerhope.com Help for Mac, Windows and Unix/Linux type operating systems
• Protect your Internet servers while having fun at the expense of the hackers who try to break in!
• Trick bad guy hackers into breaking into honeypots, muhahaha!
• The Sans Institute
• How to report computer crimes
• More self defense links ...

Intrusion Detection Systems

More ways to defend yourself!

• http://hoganbooks.com/freebook/webbooks.html Tons of great online books
• http://www.unixreview.com/books/wallobooks.shtml Unix books
• http://www.informit.com Entire books available to you online. Free!
• http://www.ameaglepubs.com/store/index.html Download Dr. Mark Ludwig's books on computer viruses for free -- lots of technical details and source code.
• http://www.ece.orst.edu/~dortiz/ece375/ An Assembly language simulator (for the chips you have in PCs)
• http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone5/index.htm Programmers' Heaven, with everything you need for assembly language programming for many different types of computers.
• The Guides to (mostly) Harmless Hacking -- Programmers' Series
• The Linux manual pages. Don't worry about the Korean characters. Just type in the name of the command you are curious about and hit enter for a manual page readout.

Free Usenet Servers:

• http://freenews.maxbaud.net

• Foundstone offers many free tools such as FPort, which gives you an idea of which port is running what services in your PC.
• Want to get serious about making Windows act like Unix?
• http://www.netscantools.com/
• http://www.tucows.com
• http://winfiles.com/
• http://sysinternals.com

Also please see the many computer security links in our "How to Defend" section.

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