http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/black-ops-how-hbgary-wrote-backdoors-and-rootkits-for-the-government.ars/ articles describes operations of computer security firm HBGary, based on email archive of HBGary, that hacker group “Anonymous” has recently made available
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/security_response/whitepapers/w32_stuxnet_dossier.pdf Most complete research on stuxnet comes from Symantec in a form of their paper called “W32.Stuxnet Dossier”.
http://www.immunityinc.com/products-canvas.shtml Immunity Debugger, vulns, sploits, and other good stuff
http://n3on.org/projects/reCAPTCHA/ A paper [presented @ DEFCON 2010] describing algorithm to solve reCAPTCHA ( http://reCAPTCHA .net )
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2010/06/cyberwar-is-fiction.html “The conflicts between nation states in cyberspace are nothing like warfare, and the tools hackers use are nothing like weapons. However, this fiction is what is driving national policy, and that worries me a lot. I feel this cluelessness is a bigger danger to cyberspace than foreign hackers.” , by Robert Graham
http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/artificial_intelligence/67310/#habracut article show how to break captcha (habrahabr.ru – cool russian IT-buzz site) from habrahabr.ru using some ruby + ImageMagic + some AI based on neural network.
https://forums.openfiler.com/viewtopic.php?pid=9883#p9883 SS4200 is an Intel NAS enclosure for around $200, specs: 1G Ether, 4xSATA HDD, 1.6 intel celeron CPU, 512 MB RAM. Comes with some linux firmware or windows home server. This post tells how to install openfiler on it.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pwn2own-mac-hack,2254.html Charlie Miller is the one who broke in to up2date fully patched mac in about 1 minute and won (macbook air ) in the latest Pwn2Own content. Good read if you have 20 minutes.
http://www.developerweb.net/forum/showthread.php?p=22844 echo “you need a copy of socat, ( yum install socat) "
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/11/16/google-as-a-password-cracker/ cracking md5’s by a google search – very smart!