Hacker school

Its about how to learn n how to be hacker
Contributors
ISECOM TEAM : Pete Herzog, Chuck Truett, Marta Barceló, Kim Truett,

Exercises:1.1.2 Magazines and Newspapers
A. Search the Web for 3 online magazines regarding Security.
B. How did you find these magazines?
C. Are all three magazines about computer security?

Exercises: 1.1.3 Zines and Blogs
A. Search the Web for 3 zines regarding computer security.
B. How did you find these zines?
C. Why do you classify these as zines? Remember, just because they market it as a zine
or put “zine” in the title does not mean it is one.
D. Search the Web for 3 blogs regarding computer security.
E. What communities are these associated with?

Exercises: 1.1.4 Forums and Mailing Lists
A. Find 3 computer security forums.
B. How did you find these forums?
C. Can you determine the whole theme of the website?
D. Do the topics in the forums reflect the theme of the website hosting them?
E. Find 3 computer security mailing lists.
F. Who is the “owner” of these lists?
G. On which list would you expect the information to be more factual and less opinionated and why?

Exercises: 1.1.5 Newsgroups
A. Using Google’s groups, find the oldest newsgroup posting you can about security.
B. Find other ways to use newsgroups - are there applications you can use to read newsgroups?
C. How many newsgroups can you find that talk about computer hacking?
Exercises: 1.1.6 in the file …. Sorry guys ?, u have to download at source site …..

Exercises: 1.1.7 Chat
A. Find 3 chat programs to use for instant messaging. What makes them different? Can they all be used to talk to each other?
B. Find out what IRC is and how you can connect to it. Once you are able to connect,
enter the ISECOM chat room as announced on the front page of
isekom
C. How do you know which channels exist to join in IRC? Find 3 computer security channels and 3 hacker channels. Can you enter these channels? Are there people talking or are they “bots”?

1.2 Further Lessons
Meta Search
The Invisible Web
Google Hacking
How Search Engines Work
The Open Source Search Engine