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Beginners Guide Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Computer Law Special Issue


Beginners' Series

  [So you want to be a harmless hacker?]
[Hacking from Windows 95!]
[Hacking into Windows 95 (and a little bit of NT lore)!]
[Hacking from Windows 3.x, 95 and NT]
[How to Get a *Good* Shell Account]
[How to Get a *Good* Shell Account part II]
[How to use the Web to look up information on hacking]
[PGP for Newbies]
[Computer hacking. Where did it begin and how did it grow?]
[The Exploit Files]

Beginners Guide as a Zip file

Volume 1

  [How To Finger a User Via Telnet]
[How To Forge ( and Identify Forged) Email]
[How To Break Into a Computer Using Finger]
[How To Get Usenet Spammers Kicked Off Their ISP's]
[How To Get Email Spammers Kicked Off Their ISP's]
[How To Nuke Offensive Web Sites]
[How to Forge Email Using Eudora Pro]

Volume 1 as a Zip file


Volume 2

  [Internet for Dummies]
[Linux Basics]
[Introduction to TCP/IP]
[More Intro to TCP/IP]

Volume 2 as a Zip file


Volume 3

  [How To Protect Yourself From Email Bombs]
[How To Map the Internet]
[How To Keep From Getting Kicked Off IRC]
[How to Read Email Headers and Find Internet Hosts
Warning: flamebait enclosed!]

[The Dread gtmhh/gtmhh on Cracking]
[How to Be a Hero in Computer lab]
[Introduction to Computer Viruses Part I]
[Introduction to Computer Viruses Part II]
[The Magical Mystical Crypto-Primer Part I]
[The Magical Mystical Crypto-Primer Part II]
[Domain Name Service for Newbies]
[War Tools! Scan, Sniff, Spoof and Hijack Part I]
[War Tools! Scan, Sniff, Spoof and Hijack Part II]
[How to Break into Windows NT Part I]
[How to Break into Windows NT: Backdoors and Practical Jokes]
[Through the looking glass: Finding evidence of your cracker]

Volume 3 as a Zip file

Volume 4

The "MORE" series
[More On Hacker Wars On Internet Relay Chat]
[Hacker Wars: Fighting the Cybernazis]

Volume 4 as a Zip file


Volume 5

Programmers' Series
[Shell Programming]
[Shell Programming: an Exploit Explained, Part 1]
[Shell Programming: an Exploit Explained, Part 2]
[More on Advanced Unix Shell Programming]
[How to Program in C Part 1]
[How to Program in C Part 2]

Volume 5 as a Zip file


Volume 6

Real Hackers
[Eric S. Raymond]
[Harold Willison]

Volume 6 as a Zip file


Volume 7

  [Introduction to Hacker Wargaming]

Volume 7 as a Zip file not yet avalible


Computer Crime Law

  [Issue 1]


Microsoft-only


[Getting Serious with Win95]
[Hacking with Win95/NT: Batch File Programming]
[Hacking with Win95/NT: Batch File Programming 2]
[How to Break into a Windows 95 Computers from the Internet]
[How to Break into Windows 95 from the Internet, continued.]

Microsoft-Only as Zip file


Special Issues

[Special Internet Explorer Bug Issue]