Great List of Hack Sites

The SANS Pen Test group has a poster they hand out at SANS conferences and put in mailings that has an awesome mind map of hacking challenge/skills sites.

Won't be going to conference soon or not on the mailing list? No worries, the poster can be downloaded here and all of the SANS posters are located here, including  DFIR, Threat Intelligence, CIS and some general information posters.

If you're not familiar with SANS posters, they're not just marketing tools (but of course they advertise an event, too) but are full of good, useful information. Like the hack sites mind map.

Enjoy!

Dorking

There's a good article on Google Dorking on DarkReading here. If you're not sure what Google Dorking is, in essence, it's using Google (you can do the same with other search engines) with advanced operators to find information on the Internet that shouldn't be exposed. You can find files, passwords, user accounts, open webcams and all sort of other data. The concept was made popular by Johnny Long, who now resides in Uganda with his family helping educate needy kids (Hackers For Charity is his organization and and a worthy place to donate funds, equipment or time). http://www.hackersforcharity.org/