# Awesome Penetration Testing 


A collection of awesome penetration testing resources, tools, confs, books, magazines and other shiny things.


## Resources
### Penetration Testing
* [Metasploit Unleashed](http://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/) - Free Offensive Security metasploit course.
### Social Engineering
* [Social Engineering Framework](http://www.social-engineer.org/framework/) - An information resource for social engineers.


## Tools
### Penetration Testing
* [Kali](http://www.kali.org/) - A Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing.
* [Metasploit](http://www.metasploit.com/) - World's most used penetration testing software.
### Social Engineering
* [SET](https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit) - The Social-Engineer Toolkit from TrustedSec
### Anonimity
* [Tor](https://www.torproject.org/) - The free software for enabling onion routing online anonymity.
* [I2P](https://geti2p.net) - The Invisible Internet Project
### Networks tools
* [Network Tools](http://network-tools.com/) - Different network tools: pink, lookup, whois, etc.
### Hex editors
* [HexEdit.js](http://hexed.it/) - Browser-based hex editing.
### Windows utils
* [Sysinternals Suite](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062) - The Sysinternals Troubleshooting Utilities


## Conferences
* [DEF CON](https://www.defcon.org/) - An annual hacker convention in Las Vegas.
* [Black Hat](http://www.blackhat.com/) - An annual security conference in Las Vegas.
* [BSides](http://www.securitybsides.com/) - A framework for organising and holding security conferences.
* [CCC](http://events.ccc.de/congress/) - An annual meeting of the international hacker scene in Germany.
* [DerbyCon](https://www.derbycon.com/) - An annual hacker conference based in Louisville.
* [PhreakNIC](http://phreaknic.info/) - A technology conference held annually in middle Tennessee.
* [ShmooCon](http://www.shmoocon.org/) - An annual US east coast hacker convention.
* [CarolinaCon](http://www.carolinacon.org/) - An infosec conference, held annually in North Carolina.
* [HOPE](http://hope.net/) - A conference series sponsored by the hacker magazine 2600.
* [SummerCon](http://www.summercon.org/) - One of the oldest hacker conventions, held during Summer.
* [Hack.lu](http://hack.lu/) - An annual conference held in Luxembourg.
* [HITB](http://conference.hitb.org/) - Deep-knowledge security conference held in Malaysia and The Netherlands.
* [Troopers](https://www.troopers.de) - Annual international IT Security event with workshops held in Heidelberg, Germany.
* [Hack3rCon](http://hack3rcon.org/) - An annual US hacker conference.
* [ThotCon](http://thotcon.org/) - An annual US hacker conference held in Chicago.
* [LayerOne](http://www.layerone.org/) - An annual US security conerence held every spring in Los Angeles.
* [DeepSec](https://deepsec.net/) - Security Conference in Vienna, Austria.
* [SkyDogCon](http://www.skydogcon.com/) - A technology conference in Nashville.


## Books
### Penetration Testing
* [The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson, 2008](http://www.nostarch.com/hacking2.htm)
* [Metasploit: The Penetration Tester's Guide by David Kennedy and others, 2011](http://www.nostarch.com/metasploit)
* [Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking by Georgia Weidman, 2014](http://www.nostarch.com/pentesting)
### Windows
* [Windows Internals by Mark Russinovich, David Solomon, Alex Ionescu](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963901.aspx)
### Social Engineering
* [The Art of Deception by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, 2002](http://wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471237124.html)
* [The Art of Intrusion by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, 2005](http://wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0764569597.html)
* [Ghost in the Wires by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, 2011](http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin-mitnick/ghost-in-the-wires/9780316134477/)
* [No Tech Hacking by Johnny Long, Jack Wiles, 2008](http://www.elsevier.com/books/no-tech-hacking/mitnick/978-1-59749-215-7)
* [Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking by Christopher Hadnagy, 2010](http://wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470639539.html)
* [Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security by Christopher Hadnagy, 2014](http://wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118608577.html)


## Magazines
* [2600: The Hacker Quarterly](http://www.2600.com/Magazine/DigitalEditions) - An American publication about technology and computer "underground".
* [Hakin9](https://hakin9.org/) - A Polish online, weekly publication on IT Security.