How to Become a Hacker A short essay on becoming an "old-guard" hacker (NOT a cracker or phreaker). http://www.robson.org/gary/writing/becomeahacker.html

Linux Documentation Project Compilation of tutorials and HOWTOs for the linux operating system. http://www.linuxdoc.com/

The Newbies Area Archive of text files and utilities. http://www.thenewbiesarea.com/

^Rob's WerLD Contains information about viruses and trojans and their fixes. For newbies and advanced. http://r_o_b_43.tripod.com/rob/

The Happy Hacker Home of the Guides to (Mostly) Harmless Hacking. Focus is mainly on Windows 95 and 98. Some mention of Windows NT. http://www.happyhacker.org/

Hackers World Portal Links to hacking history, cryptology, censorship, international hacking groups, news, publications, security, weekly features. http://www.geocities.com/hackersworldportal/

Hacker Smiling Contains books, tutorials, downloads and links to other sites. http://home.iprimus.com.au/ataya/

Attrition's Newbie Area Newbie-oriented tutorials about stuff like UNIX and system penetration auditing. http://unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/

Hackerthreads.org Tutorials about networking, system administration and network utilities. http://www.hackerthreads.org/

How to become a Hacker ESR's paper on how to become a Hacker. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

The New Hacker's Dictionary Hacking jargon including information on writing style, hacker terms, and lamer-speak. http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/frames.html

Metasploit Project Open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code. Downloads and release notes. [Windows, Unix] http://www.metasploit.com/