Useful Links
Awesome Things
allinfosecnews_sources - "A list of online news & info sources in the InfoSec/Cybersecurity space"
awesome-hacker-news - "A collection of awesome Hacker News apps, libraries, resources and shiny things"
awesome-threat-intelligence - "A curated list of Awesome Threat Intelligence resources"
awesome-cryptography - "A curated list of cryptography resources and links"
awesome-selfhosted - "A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers"
awesome-docker - "A curated list of Docker resources and projects"
Free Education
Cybersecurity Education Resources - "An awesome list of cybersecurity educational resources"
Developer Roadmaps - "A community effort to create roadmaps, guides and other educational content to help guide developers in picking up a path and guide their learnings"
ByteByteGo Newsletter - "Explain complex systems with simple terms"
Open Source Society University - "Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science"
Security Distributions
BackTrack Linux(history: Whoppix -> WHAX -> BackTrack -> Kali Linux)Kali Linux - "the most advanced Penetration Testing Distribution"
Security Onion - "free and open platform built by defenders for defenders"
Parrot OS - "arsenal of tools, utilities and libraries professionals can use to test and assess the security of their assets"
BlackArch Linux - "an Arch Linux-based penetration testing distribution"
Network Security Toolkit - "best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications"
Pentoo - "security-focused livecd based on Gentoo"
Tails - "distribution aimed at preserving privacy and anonymity against surveillance"
Security Software
Proton Mail free end-to-end encrypted email service operated by Swiss company Proton AG
Proton Drive free end-to-end encrypted storage operated by Swiss company Proton AG
ProtonVPN free VPN service operated by Swiss company Proton AG
WireGuard VPN - "simple, fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography"
OpenVPN - "versatile standards-based VPN client and tunneling software"
ExpressVPN - commercial VPN service provider with leading encryption
TrueCrypt(Deprecated)VeraCrypt - TrueCrypt fork "open-source utility for on-the-fly encryption"
Tomb - minimalistic command line tool based on Linux dm-crypt and LUKS
GnuPG - complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications
OpenPGP - non-proprietary format for authenticating or encrypting data, using public key cryptography and the most widely used email encryption standard
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall - a Check Point company - "Protect your PC with the world’s best firewall solution" for Windows
ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus - a Check Point company - "Secure yourself with a robust antivirus solution and the world’s best firewall" for Windows
AVG AntiVirus Free - "Award-winning free antivirus" for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android
Bitdefender Antivirus - Antivirus protection for Windows, Mac and Android
ClamAV Antivirus - "open-source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats"
Adaware Antivirus - "stay protected while searching & surfing the web"
Pidgin - multi-protocol (AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, Jabber, XMPP, SameTime) chat with optional encryption
Signal - "State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption keeps your conversations secure"
Session - "end-to-end encrypted messenger that minimises sensitive metadata"
Utilities & Live CD's
Ventoy - open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files
Netboot.xyz - boot into many types of operating systems using lightweight tooling
Sytem Rescue CD - Linux-based Linux system rescue toolkit
Gnome Partition Editor - free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions
Parted Magic - commercial hard disk management solution
TrueNAS (Formerly FreeNAS) - free and commercial software-defined storage
pfSense - free network firewall distribution, based on the FreeBSD operating system
IPFire - Open Source Linux-based Firewall Operating System with a Comprehensive Feature Set
Knoppix - bootable Live system on CD, DVD or USB flash drives
Linux Systems
Ubuntu - "The world’s favourite Linux operating system"
Xubuntu - "An elegant and easy to use operating system with Xfce"
Lubuntu - "Featuring LXQT Desktop"
Debian - "The universal operating system" established by Ian Murdock in August 1993
CentOS Stream - "derived from Fedora Linux" upstream development platform for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Gentoo - "A highly flexible, source-based Linux distribution"
Fedora - "It's your Operating System"
OpenSUSE - "The makers' choice for sysadmins, developers and desktop users"
PC Linux OS - free easy to use Linux-based Operating System
Other Systems
FreeBSD - "derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley"
NetBSD - "free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system"
OmniOS CE - "Unix-based system built on the illumos kernel, a fork of the OpenSolaris kernel"
OpenIndiana - "Community-driven illumos Distribution"
FreeDOS - "open source DOS-compatible operating system"
Dockur Windows - "Windows inside a Docker container"
Dockur macOS - "macOS inside a Docker container"
Monitoring & Automation
Netdata - monitor your entire infrastructure in high-resolution and in real-time
Homebridge - integrate with smart home devices that do not natively support HomeKit
Home Assistant - Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first
Documentation
Cloud Providers
Cryptocurrency
Music & Media Production
My Former Bands
Miscellaneous
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