Overview

This page is a curated collection of cybersecurity resources organized by category. It serves as a reference space for tools news learning platforms and opportunities that support continuous growth in cybersecurity knowledge.

Cyber News

• CISO Series
  Leadership focused discussions on cybersecurity risk and strategy.

• CSO Online
  Enterprise security news covering risk management and compliance.

• Dark Reading
  In depth reporting on threats vulnerabilities and industry trends.

• Krebs on Security
  Investigative journalism focused on cybercrime and security incidents.

• SANS NewsBites
  Weekly summaries of major cybersecurity news curated by SANS.

• Schneier on Security
  Analysis on security cryptography privacy and public policy.

• SecurityWeek
  Daily updates on vulnerabilities threats and security research.

Cyber Tools

• Active Countermeasures Free Tools
  A collection of free and open source defensive security tools.

• Ciphey
  Automates decryption and decoding of encodings ciphers hashes and cryptographic formats.

• CVSS v3 Calculator
  Official vulnerability scoring calculator maintained by FIRST.

• Crontab.guru
  Simple editor and explainer for cron scheduling expressions.

• CVE.org
  The official catalog of publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.

• CyberChef
  Web based tool for encoding decoding analyzing and transforming data.

• MITRE D3FEND Matrix
  A defensive framework mapping countermeasures to security techniques.

• dnstwister
  Domain monitoring tool for detecting typo squatting and phishing domains.

• EmailRep
  Evaluates email reputation using breach data metadata and signals.

• explainshell
  Explains Linux commands using manual page references.

• Exploit Database
  Public archive of exploits and vulnerable software.

• FreeFormatter
  Online formatting validation encoding and decoding tools.

• NIST Glossary
  Official glossary of cybersecurity terminology.

• Have I Been Pwned
  Checks if email addresses appear in known data breaches.

• IPAddressGuide
  CIDR and IP address calculation tools.

• JSON Lint
  Validates and formats JSON data.

• MITRE ATT&CK
  Knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques.

• MyEventLog
  Searchable explanations for Windows event logs and syslog entries.

• Pagodo
  Automates Google dorking for identifying exposed web resources.

• PimEyes
  Reverse image and face recognition search engine.

• Talos Intelligence Search
  Threat intelligence provided by Cisco Talos.

• Tools4noobs
  Online hash calculator.

• URL Encode Decode
  Encodes and decodes URL formatted strings.

• VirusTotal
  Analyzes files URLs domains and IPs for malicious activity.

• Whois Lookup
  Domain and IP registration lookup tool.

• Windows Security Log Encyclopedia
  Reference for understanding Windows security event logs.

CTFs and Cyber Games

• 247CTF
  Online capture the flag challenges across security domains.

• OverTheWire Wargames
  Interactive games for learning Linux and security fundamentals.

• The Cyber Challenge
  DoD resource introducing cybersecurity concepts and careers.

Home Labs and Projects

• First Contributions
  Beginner friendly guide to contributing to open source projects.

• Labtainers
  Packaged Linux based cybersecurity lab exercises.

• SIFT Workstation
  Incident response and digital forensics virtual machine.

• Simple Network Scanner Web App
  Web based Nmap scanner project by Eli the Computer Guy.

• Slingshot Linux Distribution
  Ubuntu based penetration testing distribution used in SANS training.

• VulnHub
  Vulnerable machines for hands on security practice.

Job Search

• Cyber Now Education
  Monthly listings of entry level SOC analyst roles.

• Infosec Job Hunting with BanjoCrashland
  Strategic guidance for cybersecurity job searching.

• TryHackMe Interview Prep
  Resources for preparing for security engineering interviews.

Upskill

A collection of learning platforms and technical skill builders including:

Active Directory Domain Services
Bash Scripting
CS50 Cybersecurity
CS50 Python
FedVTE
freeCodeCamp
Git
Google Dorking
HackerOne Learning
Linux Journey
Metasploit
PowerShell
Regex
Shodan Search Fundamentals
SQL
Windows PowerShell

Veterans Resources

Programs supporting veterans military spouses and service members entering cybersecurity including Fortinet Veterans Hiring Our Heroes Onward to Opportunity SANS VetSuccess and others.

Volunteer Opportunities

Cybersecurity focused volunteer organizations including CyberPeace Builders ITDRC ISC2 volunteering and public sector incident response teams.