Giovanni Vigna - Links

Morning Fix

• National Public Radio
• Radio Popolare
• Slashdot
• The Register
• Salon
• The Onion
• NY Times
• CNN
• La Repubblica
• Il Corriere della Sera

Security

• Packet Storm.
• Security Focus.
• LinuxSecurity.com Information, Tools, Exploits (useful "Most recent Tools/Exploit" feature).
• SecureMac.com, information and tools on securing Mac OS.
• http://ha.ckers.org/
• http://isc.sans.org/
• http://netsec.blogspot.com/
• http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/
• http://blogs.securiteam.com
• http://www.darknet.org.uk/
• http://metasploit.blogspot.com/
• http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/
• http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cms/main.php3
• Intrusion Detection Papers.
• Snort.
• Nessus.
• Nmap at insecure.org
• Tcpdump and Libpcap.
• Ethereal.
• Libnet at packetfactory.net.
• The Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual.
• Openwall.com, home of John the Ripper.
• Robert Garaham's site with interesting docs on Carnivore.

Hacking Challenges

• Blackhole, a challenge that covers writing remote exploits for various vulnerabilities, which are available on the website.
• Vortex, a challenge that covers basic levels to the advanced. Some types of levels available are stenography, privilege seperation style bugs, password cracking, analyzing binaries and encryption algo's.
• Void, a typical "exploit this box" style game.
• www.hackthissite.org
• www.hackerslab.org
• www.hdcwargame.com
• www.learntohack.org
• www.try2hack.nl
• New Order's list of hyacking challenes

Software Development

• GNU
• SourceForge
• Doxygen

Networks

• RFCs at the RFC Editor site

Operating Systems

• Linux
• Linux HOWTOs
• Ipsysctl tutorial
• Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition by Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet
• Installing Debian 3.0 onto an Apple iBook.
• Gentoo Linux/PPC 1.4 Installation Instructions.
• DD's Ultimate Guide to Mac OS Security.

Surfing

• Santa Barbara Surfing
• NOAA/NCEP WAVEWATCH III Plots NE Pac
• Swell Height - South California Bight
• Significant Wave Height - Santa Barbara Channel
• Wave forecast

Painting

• Galleria degli Uffizi , in Florence.
• Web Museum.

Music

• Olga, the online guitar and bass archive.
• Kids' Music.
• Rock & Roll Songs with lyrics and chords.
• Some folk songs.
• Easy Songs For Beginners.
• songs2play, chords and lyrics
• The Tab World, chords, tabs, lyrics.

Video

• DVD ripping and transcoding with Linux.
• Kino, a digital video editor for Linux.
• Cinelerra, a video editing application for Linux.