Best “All in One” E-texts I can hand out to newbies

[Irongeek]

I have these meetings the first Saturday of every month where a bunch of folks from the local area get together and talk about computer/network security. I’ve noticed recently that a lot of the presentations are flying over some of the folks heads, like when I started to explain Nmap and OS fingerprinting to someone and found out they did not know what a port was. What I’m asking for is advice on any e-texts I could print off and give to new folks to catch them up on TCP/IP networks, and maybe a 2nd one that covers the basics of computer security. What are the best one stop e-texts out there that I could give out that would get people up to speed enough to understand the more experienced folks presentations? Any suggestions?

[helplesslyhopin]

you really need to search around for ebooks.. you probably will be finding pdf's instead of txt's.

search google for "oreilly ebooks"

this link has a few good things but they are pretty much higher level stuff.
maybe you can grab pieces that might apply.

http://www.comms.engg.susx.ac.uk/fft/

somewhere I had saved other links for ebooks I'll look around and pm you if I can find them.

[fyrewall]

Checkout fyodor's links at http://www.insecure.org/reading.html

also check http://www.packetstormsecurity.com/papers/

http://www.packetstormsecurity.com/magazines/

http://www.insecure.org/links.html

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html

http://www.etext.org/index.shtml

http://www.wbglinks.net/ (has a html reads section on the right hand side)

http://www.securitydocs.com/

I can't give you one in particular but I am sure you can find what your looking for amongst these links

[PacketThirst]

Check Out

http://www.flashdance.cx/books/

http://www.thefreecountry.com/

Theyv'e got tons of books !

[phishphreek]

Don't forget the sans reading room or security focus

http://www.sans.org/rr/

http://www.securityfocus.com

Lots of good papers there.

[ss2chef]

http://techbooksforfree.com/security.shtml