the-book-of-secret-knowledge/README.md

A collection of awesome lists, manuals, hacks and tools for Awesome Ninja Admins.

_{Created by trimstray and contributors}

!!! This documentation is incomplete and constantly developed !!!

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Who is Ninja Admins?

• race of pure evil who rule the network through a monarchistic feudelic system
• they never opened the door for strangers (or anyone at all)
• they know very nasty piece of code like a fork bombs
• they can make dd is not a disk destroyer
• they know that #!/usr/bin/env bash superior to #!/bin/bash
• they know that su - logs in completely as root
• they love the old admin nix-world school

Ninja Admins Collection

Tools

  🔸 Oh My ZSH! - the best framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
  🔸 bash-it - a community Bash framework.
  🔸 Curl - command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs.
  🔸 HTTPie - a user-friendly HTTP client.
  🔸 gnutls-cli - client program to set up a TLS connection to some other computer.
  🔸 pgcli - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

  🔸 SSL Server Test - free online service performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server.
  🔸 SSL Server Test (DEV) - free online service performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server.
  🔸 ImmuniWeb® SSLScan - test SSL/TLS (PCI DSS, HIPAA and NIST).
  🔸 Security Headers - analyse the HTTP response headers (with rating system to the results).
  🔸 Observatory by Mozilla - set of tools to analyze your website.
  🔸 Report URI - monitoring security policies like CSP and HPKP.
  🔸 CSP Evaluator - allows developers and security experts to check if a Content Security Policy.
  🔸 Common CA Database - repository of information about CAs, and their root and intermediate certificates.
  🔸 CERTSTREAM - Real-time certificate transparency log update stream.

Manuals/Howtos/Tutorials

  🔸 pure-bash-bible - a collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.
  🔸 The Bash Hackers Wiki - hold documentation of any kind about GNU Bash.
  🔸 nixCraft - Linux and Unix tutorials for new and seasoned sysadmin.
  🔸 TecMint - the ideal Linux blog for Sysadmins & Geeks.
  🔸 Hacking Articles - LRaj Chandel's Security & Hacking Blog.

Blogs

  🔸 Brendan Gregg's Blog - Brendan Gregg is an industry expert in computing performance and cloud computing.
  🔸 Gynvael "GynDream" Coldwind - Gynvael is a IT security engineer at Google.
  🔸 Michał "lcamtuf" Zalewski - "white hat" hacker, computer security expert.
  🔸 Mattias Geniar - developer, Sysadmin, Blogger, Podcaster and Public Speaker.
  🔸 Nick Craver - Software Developer and Systems Administrator for Stack Exchange.
  🔸 Robert Penz - IT security Expert.
  🔸 Scott Helme - Security Researcher, international speaker and founder of securityheaders.com and report-uri.com.
  🔸 Kacper Szurek - Detection Engineer at ESET.
  🔸 Troy Hunt - Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Developer Security.

Services

  🔸 Varnish HTTP Cache - HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites.

One-liners

  🔸 commandlinefu.com - Command line diamonds, created and voted on by our members.

Lists

  🔸 Awesome Sysadmin - amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources.
  🔸 Awesome Shell - awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos.
  🔸 Awesome-Hacking - awesome lists for hackers, pentesters and security researchers.