Want to get in to our minds, see how we think and how we act? Here are some good resources, references and other meanderings that I think are decent reading. What follows are generally good excerpts on some of the things "hackers" and security professionals tend to idealize: fascinating problems, personal freedoms and privacy, free speech, and the inability to be bored (with all these fascinating problems waiting to be solved).

Please let me know if you come across anything that should be added here.

Note: the term "hacker" here is not meant to construe or condone criminal activity of any kind and, instead, is used in its true form: a person with the likes to tinker, often with exceptional skill or desire, with the soul purpose to understand something completely and intimately, often not security (or even computer) related. It is a sad reflection on today's society that I feel the need to expressly state this idea.

• GIAC - Global Information Assurance Certification (brought to you by SANS)
• SANS - The SANS Institute
• ToorCon - TOORCON Information Security Conference
• USENIX Security - USENIX Security Symposium

• Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions
  • First Edition
  • Second Edition
  • Third Edition
  • Fourth Edition
• Network Intrusion Detection: An Analysts' Handbook
  • First Edition - An Analysts' Handbook
  • Second Edition - An Analysts' Handbook
  • Third Edition
• Intrusion Signatures and Analysis
• Honeypots: Tracking Hackers by Lance Spitzner
• Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community by The Honeynet Project

• The Hacker's Manifesto

• Aleph One's Smashing the Stack For Fun And Profit
• Mudge's Buffer Overflow Tutorial

• Fyodor's Good Reading List

• Internet Storm Center
• Security Focus

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