Thread by @alexjplaskett

The amount of free training courses available these days for #cybersecurity is wild. People ask me if its worth paying for a specific course? First, have you seen all the free material out there?

Lets dig into a selection! 👇

1/ Modern Binary Exploitation by @RPISEC. This was a university course developed and run solely by students to teach skills in vulnerability research, reverse engineering, and binary exploitation.

github.com/RPISEC/MBE

2/ OpenSecurityTraining by @XenoKovah Not strictly binary exploitation but all the fundementals needed for this. Architecture, debugging, reverse engineering, vulns and exploitation courses.

p.ost2.fyi/courses

3/ by @Zardus and @TheConnorNelson is an education platform for students (and other interested parties) to learn about, and practice, core cybersecurity concepts in a hands-on fashion.

pwn.college
pwn.college

4/ A repo is for learning various heap exploitation techniques by @shellphish

github.com/shellphish/how…

5/ A much older set of tutorials on exploit development (and many other areas) by @FuzzySec

fuzzysecurity.com/tutorials.html

6/ This workshop introduces fuzzing and how to make the most of using American Fuzzy Lop, a popular and powerful fuzzer, through a series of challenges where you rediscover real vulnerabilities in popular open source projects.

by @michael_macnair github.com/mykter/afl-tra…

7) NYU Poly Courses on fuzzing uploaded by @dguido

Fuzzing 101 (Part 1) - by Mike Zusman.


Fuzzing 101 (Part 2) - by Mike Zusman.


Fuzzing 101 (2009) - by Mike Zusman.
vimeo.com/5236104
vimeo.com/5237484
vimeo.com/7574602

8) Introduction to Blackbox fuzzing by @FuzzingLabs


academy.fuzzinglabs.com/introduction-b…
academy.fuzzinglabs.com/introduction-b…

9) by @OphirHarpaz



3 preparation assignments and 5 sessions in the following areas:

#1 - x86 Overview
#2 - Short Intro to IDA
#3 - Playground Exercises
#4 - Julia
#5 - Hacking Minesweeper begin.re
begin.re

10) ARM Assembly Basics by @Fox0x01

azeria-labs.com/writing-arm-as…

11) Offensive and Defensive Android Reversing

github.com/rednaga/traini…

12) This repository contains the materials as developed and used by RPISEC to teach Malware Analysis at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Fall 2015

github.com/RPISEC/Malware

13) Reverse Engineering 101 by @malwareunicorn

This workshop provides the fundamentals of reversing engineering (RE) Windows malware using a hands-on experience with RE tools and techniques.

malwareunicorn.org/workshops/re10…
malwareunicorn.org/workshops/re10…

14) Practical Malware Analysis

Learn how to analyze malware, including computer viruses, trojans, and rootkits, using disassemblers, debuggers, static and dynamic analysis, using IDA Pro, OllyDbg and other tools:

samsclass.info/126/126_S17.sh…

15) by @PortSwigger

Free, online web security training from the creators of Burp Suite portswigger.net/web-security

16) by @hackthebox_eu

Hack The Box is an online platform allowing you to test your penetration testing skills.hackthebox.com

17) Web Application Ethical Hacking - Penetration Testing Course for Beginners by @thecybermentor

classcentral.com/course/freecod…

18) The Bug Hunter's Methodology by @Jhaddix




docs.google.com/presentation/d…
github.com/jhaddix/tbhm

19) For those of you with YouTube addiction

by @LiveOverflow - various IT security topics, hacking competitions.
by @NetworkChuck - IT General interest with some security
by @joegrand - Hacking + electronicsyoutube.com/@LiveOverflow
youtube.com/@NetworkChuck
youtube.com/@JoeGrand

20) by @StackSmashing - Reverse engineering and hardware security
by @FlashbackPwn - Hardware and IOT security from past pwn2own winners.
by @_JohnHammond - Wide range of security related topics.youtube.com/@stacksmashing
youtube.com/@FlashbackTeam
youtube.com/@_JohnHammond

21) by @davidbombal - Linux, Python, Ethical Hacking, Networking, CCNA + other IT related topics.
by @stokfredrik - A bug bounty scene OG with high production quality videos
by @0xTib3rius - web apps, ctfyoutube.com/davidbombal
youtube.com/@STOKfredrik/
youtube.com/@Tib3rius/

I tried to include material here for all skills levels and differences in how people learn.

What great free courses do you like or have I missed?