+1 for Learning Perl, 5th Edition, a nice book to get started.

I didn't check for Perl but there might be some good videos here - http://showmedo.com/

if you are starting to learn some new programming language why don't you consider Python?? (Perl is a nice language but I am a little bit biased towards Python)

The book is perfect!! even though most of the content has been covered in "Metasploit Unleashed", it definitely worth the price.

Vivek's Metasploit mega primer is still awesome, waiting for his second series on Metasploit.

In addition, video series on Armitage & Metasploit by Raphael Mudge is really awesome, The quality of the content is very good.
http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/379/2/

I finished reading "Nmap Network Scanning" book last month and now I'm practicing the techniques.
It is nicely laid out, this book is beyond just the usage of command line flags, at some places the author gets deep into usage of nmap along with tools like 'DIG'. to make it short, this book is what every book on security tools should be laid out like.

Another good book on nmap I can think of is :
Secrets of Network Cartography: A Comprehensive Guide to Nmap

and if you just want a kick start with nmap, consider reading:
Nmap-Cookbook-Fat-free-Network-Scanning

But by best bet will be Fyodor's book, no other book on nmap(or other security tools) can be compared with the quality of Fyodor's book.

Use the Verbose output option using '-v' command line flag or Increase the verbosity level using '-vv'

try using '--packet-trace' command line flag, this option causes Nmap to print a summary of every packet it sends and receives. This can be extremely useful for debugging or understanding Nmap's behavior.

There is a new book out there
http://www.amazon.com/Bug-Hunters-Diary-Software-Security/dp/1593273851

Myne-US laid out a nice road map for any one who are starting their a journey into exploitation from the scratch. Hope it might help

http://myne-us.blogspot.com/2010/08/from-0x90-to-0x4c454554-journey-into.html

Yeah, I do know that it's illegal to scan with out permission. Actually I got my BT5 copy installed today, so I am figuring out how every scanner works .
Thanks for the reply

Hi

This might come as a total noob question but I always wonder how does one scan the internet, I mean like I was  reading the book "KingPin" abt max Butler where he finds a vulnerability in VNC installations and uses some thing called as Port Sweeping to scan the Internet for victims, he even gets into some high security networks.. So I was wondering how can one scan computers out side his network.

Thanks for the guidance guys
Started to play with Nessus, as MaXe mentioned it seems like  a pretty straight forward tool..
if  any  problems at all I'll post it here .. and yeah I'll try first and then post it here, after  all there is nothing wrong with messing around with stuff  .

Hi

Guys.. I am just a newbie into security stuff.. I am trying out few tools like aircrack, kismet.
and coming to the point, could any one please provide me with links or books to learn Nessus, Vulnerability scanner.. I know the documentation is a nice place to start with but still curious to know if there are any good resources that u might wanna share

Thanks in advance.

Hi guys..

I am interested in learning password attack techniques (remote & Local) especially Windows..
So could any one suggest me a best place to start with. any good book or any good site?

pardon me for not being too specific abt what I want..  

Hi Vivek

It's really nice of you to put up all those videos  , Security Tube is really a good source for valuable ecurity videos. Yet to watch this WLAN Security MegaPrimer.. I think it will be good, as all of ur other primers are 

Found this site the other day.. Hope this collection by 'Corelan' might save beginners a lot time searching stuff..

http://www.corelan.be/index.php/links/

I had some trouble getting started with windows shell codind but I found the following document pretty neat when it comes to understanding the basic windows shell coding

http://www.hick.org/code/skape/papers/win32-shellcode.pdf