After these two splendid threads and awesome posts hope this thread will help to newcomers more.
http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,54/topic,2186.0/

http://www.ethicalhacker.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,54/topic,2262.0/

The ethical hacking book reading room.Read,Learn and Research.That's what we know.So a worldclass forum like this, hope this thread  will add little value.


I request all the security geeks to please put some good hacking book names from where anyone can start reading and progress to make a good carrer in IT sector.

From tcp/ip,Ethical Hacking to malware,networking etc etc.

Please if I posted anything wrong forgive me and ignore this thread.With this thread(along with other two threads also) it will be easy for anyone to find his/her question about his/her future.



regards
rok.

I wish I could find other ethical hackers in my area to chat with. I still have a lot of learning to do, and it's always good to get ideas from others.

It would be neat if there was something like this in the local community, sort of like a hacking library.

yup good advice there, also check and see if you have an OWASP group or something like that.

That's the problem in SA. Last time I went to a 2600/defcon meeting was about 6 years ago and it had a bunch of kids. That's not bad but they were all "How do I hack."


I've found alternate means of keeping up. One of my primary means is sitting on silc / EFNET and sitting in certain channels. You tend to pick up quite a few things and I've established a few friendships through those means.

As for reading materials. I'd recommend old phrack articles. Some of the stuff you find may not be applicable anymore but things like Fyoders TCP/IP articles are excellent in starting to understand fingerprinting beyond a command line level of running nmap and hping.

I actually posted up a book list over on LSO: It's somewhere in this thread:

http://learnsecurityonline.com/index.php?option=com_mamboboard&Itemid=69&func=view&id=2867&catid=20

g00d_4sh, I looked up the local defcon group here, and it seems to be a bunch of kids. That, and it seems that there are actually two groups calling themselves the same thing and they apparently fight over which one is the official/original defcon group.

Maybe I need to start my own local group.