This is just a filthy political game, if you believe that "Anonymous" exists, you really need to wake up!  

Your skills are very similar to mine when I first started to learn hacking, I would strongly suggest these two books for a starter:

-Counter Hack Reloaded
-Hacking The Art of Exploitation

How is DOS related to this issue

its not bad

Greetings  

Always wanted to chat with experienced security or IT folks, so this thread is for people who want to share knowledge or talk about some topics related to security and what so ever.

I will start with my self:

interests:      Penetration testing, programming,
                     almost anything related to security.
Messenger:  w0rm_x@yahoo.com

feel free to add & chat any time, so who's next?  

note: this is not only for experts, novice can join.

ZeroOne

LOOL

Networking is essential, if not advanced basic.

Good post, but where did networking go 

I mainly program in Java and C.. when first looking at Python, seriously its ridiculously  easy, at the same time it helps a lot. in other words, its a bonus! the only thing I am not sure about is bash. It would be great if someone could provide some links for that

sub7 huh? lol that takes me back, the path you took is better than a lot did (from white to black), Its also good that you're sharing the knowledge. I respect that. hmmm i'm not sure whether or not to say anything about history, but I'll just mention couple of silly stuff I did, actually this is a good thread this reminds me on how I decided to become a security pro, it started when I didn't like some modules they taught at school, so hacked the teacher's computer then copied the exam papers. after that I started to do some basic security stuff for my friends. took it more serious then studied more about it, then became more of a white hat.

The book "The Art of Assembly" is one of the greatest resources on Assembly language, I believe it is not easy to break into this topic, so don't give up read & raed & read.. there is nothing wrong with reading the same topic or page for 5 or even 10 times over and over, if you get stuck at some point, there are some public Assembly forum that supports learners, I have used assembly to program a micro-controller that would control a color of  a LED on a circuit, and still suffer with this, that is why I always have much respect for advanced Assembly programmers and I refer to them as "The masters of programming", not only they can program, also they are good with debugging, not to mention all the advantage they gain over all the high-level languages programmers. If you want to have this power.. you need to earn it  , now that is said.. GOOD LUCK.

Tell us more about your computing background so we can help you out.

In my opinion, any penetration tester must have a solid background not only in C, but also Assembly, that way he can debug codes and create his own exploits. also build up his own tools. for me there is no discussion about that.

You are converting the 1258.c code (C language) to a low-level language so the computer can understand it, thats why we are using gcc -o 1258 1258.c .. I'll get online in an hour w'll go through the code

ops sorry,  gcc -o 1258 1258.c