Additional
Information: Starting out as a newbie in the hacking or security world is by no means easy. Many hours are spent in frustration, trying to figure out how things work and how they don't. It takes a while but its an interesting experience.
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Newbies Sites:
Hackers World Portal Hackers World Portal: Links to hacking history, cryptology, censorship, international hacking groups, news, publications, security, weekly features. (Newbies) http://www.geocities.com/hackersworldportal/
The Happy Hacker The Happy Hacker: Home of the Guides to (Mostly) Harmless Hacking. Focus is mainly on Windows 95 and 98. Some mention of Windows NT. (Newbies) http://www.happyhacker.org/
The New Hacker's Dictionary The New Hacker's Dictionary: Hacking jargon including information on writing style, hacker terms, and lamer-speak. (Newbies) http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/frames.html
Attrition's Newbie Area Attrition's Newbie Area: Newbie-oriented tutorials about stuff like UNIX and system penetration auditing. (Newbies) http://unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/
^Rob's WerLD ^Rob's WerLD: Contains information about viruses and trojans and their fixes. For newbies and advanced. (Newbies) http://r_o_b_43.tripod.com/rob/
Hacker Smiling Hacker Smiling: Contains books, tutorials, downloads and links to other sites. (Newbies) http://home.iprimus.com.au/ataya/
How to become a Hacker How to become a Hacker: ESR's paper on how to become a Hacker. (Newbies) http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
Hackerthreads.org Hackerthreads.org: Tutorials about networking, system administration and network utilities. (Newbies) http://www.hackerthreads.org/
Linux Documentation Project Linux Documentation Project: Compilation of tutorials and HOWTOs for the linux operating system. (Newbies) http://www.linuxdoc.com/
How to Become a Hacker How to Become a Hacker: A short essay on becoming an "old-guard" hacker (NOT a cracker or phreaker). (Newbies) http://www.robson.org/gary/writing/becomeahacker.html