Essential Websites

Links for useful websites, job portals, cyber security, and more

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Topics Covered

UK JOB PORTALS

UK WORK VISA

PLAGIARISM

STAR INTERVIEW

CYBER-SEC INFO

ACADEMIC WRITING

RESUME BUILDING

LEARNING

READING

GROCERIES

UTILITIES

RENTAL SEARCH

GARDEN

DRIVING

SOFTWARE

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UK JOB PORTALS

https://isecjobs.com/

https://www.reed.co.uk/

https://www.efinancialcareers.co.uk/

https://uk.talent.com/

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https://www.totaljobs.com/

https://www.cv-library.co.uk/

https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/

https://uk.indeed.com/

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https://www.jobserve.com/gb/en/Job-Search/

https://www.cybersecurityjobsite.com/

https://infosec-jobs.com/

https://www.cyberseccareers.community/c/grc/

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https://findajob.dwp.gov.uk/

https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi

https://www.supplychain.nhs.uk/about-us/vacancies/

https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/search

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https://www.prospects.ac.uk/

https://www.internationaljobs.com/

https://www.gradcracker.com/

https://www.graduate-jobs.com/

https://www.grb.uk.com/about-us

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https://briterecruitment.com/
https://joblift.co.uk/
https://ltharper.com/
https://searchukjobs.com/
https://targetjobs.co.uk/
https://www.adecco.co.uk/
https://www.allaboutcareers.com/
https://www.deerfoot.co.uk/

https://www.flexjobs.com/
https://www.giveagradago.com/
https://www.goinglobal.com/
https://www.hays.co.uk/
https://www.huntress.co.uk/
https://www.hyperec.com/
https://www.insidecareers.co.uk/
https://www.itrecruituk.co.uk/

https://www.michaelpage.co.uk/
https://www.milkround.com/
https://www.nolanrecruitment.com/
https://www.roberthalf.co.uk/
https://www.socode.co.uk/
https://www.ziprecruiter.co.uk/

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UK Work VISA

The likelihood of getting a work visa can be determined by checking if the job skill is listed in the shortage occupation list. You can find the list by visiting this link.

Skilled Worker visa: shortage occupations

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-shortage-occupations/skilled-worker-visa-shortage-occupations

Government announcement :- The government announcement on 4 December 2023 (to be implemented from April 2024) includes

Shortage Occupation List (SOL) to be replaced with the Immigration Salary List (ISL);

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rapid-review-of-the-immigration-salary-list/rapid-review-of-the-immigration-salary-list-accessible

Skilled Worker visa

Organisation providing Skilled Worker Visa

https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job

For easy search of Organisation providing Skilled Worker Visa, by search visit the below link [ for latest data download the excel from UK GOV website] -

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers

https://www.gouti1454.com/p/2021-uk-student-visa-reference-documents.html

UK Student VISA Reference Documents

https://www.gouti1454.com/p/2021-uk-student-visa-reference-documents.html

How to identify an Employer can sponsor skilled-worker-visa

This document lists Worker and Temporary Worker sponsors. It includes information about the category of workers they’re licensed to sponsor and their sponsorship rating.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers#full-publication-update-history

STAR Interview Technique

https://www.gouti1454.com/p/starinterview.html

How to understand Plagiarism

https://www.gouti1454.com/2022/07/plagiarism.html

UK School Curriculum

https://unibritannica.com/british-education-system-and-equivalency/

https://www.gov.uk/national-curriculum

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum

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Cyber-Sec Info

CYBERSECURITY CAREER PATHWAY

https://www.cyberseek.org/pathway.html

https://niccs.cisa.gov/workforce-development/nice-framework

Road Map to Cyber Sec Certifications:

https://pauljerimy.com/security-certification-roadmap/

Snort

https://www.talosintelligence.com/software

OWASP

https://owasp.org

https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/

SAMM Software Assurance Maturity Model

https://owasp.org/www-project-samm/

CVE : Identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities

https://www.cve.org/

Analyse any suspicious files, domains, IPs and URLs to detect malware

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload

Port Database

https://www.speedguide.net/port.php?port=5357

CHAT BOT

https://you.com/code

Ransomware Attacks Visualise

https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/ransomware-attacks/

Pentesting Cheat sheet

https://hausec.com/pentesting-cheatsheet/

urlscan.io: A sandbox for the web

https://urlscan.io/

zoomeye

https://www.zoomeye.org/statistics

Find out what websites are Built With

https://builtwith.com/

Tenable Nessus Vulnerable scanner

https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus/nessus-essentials

vulnhub

https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/kioptrix-level-1-1,22/

Exploit Database

https://www.exploit-db.com

Reverse Shell Generator

https://www.revshells.com/

Pentestbook

https://pentestbook.six2dez.com/enumeration/cloud/aws

Immunity Debugger is a powerful new way to write exploits, analyze malware, and reverse engineer binary files.

https://www.immunityinc.com/products/debugger/

Email Checker - A simple tool to check whether an email address exists.

https://email-checker.net/

Check the Ad-blocker percentage

https://d3ward.github.io/toolz/adblock.html

Reverse Image Search

https://pimeyes.com/en

Learning

Free

https://www.cc4e.com/index.php

https://www.py4e.com/

Paid

https://www.infosecinstitute.com/

https://haystacksolutions.com/job-seekers/

Other

https://www.synack.com/red-team/https://bylight.com/

DNS: DNSSEC

https://www.dns0.eu/
https://www.dns0.eu/zero
https://quad9.net/
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/dns/what-is-1.1.1.1/

GRC: Open-source

https://www.auditscripts.com/free-resources/critical-security-controls/

verinice.EVAL: verinice is an ISMS-Tool - an instrument to manage information security,

https://shop.verinice.com/en/verinice.EVAL-1.26.1/10017.1M

https://www.rafis.eu/about : tool to perform a risk analysis for information security

https://tool.rafis.eu/dashboard

https://www.eramba.org/eramba-software: Community

https://demo.cloud.eramba.org/dashboard

Free Trial

https://advisera.com/articles/what-features-can-you-test-in-conformio-iso-27001-free-trial/

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WINDOWS Tweaks:

Bootable USB - recovery

https://netboot.xyz/

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

https://medicatusb.com/

Uninstaller

https://www.revouninstaller.com/

Utility:

https://it-tools.tech/

https://github.com/CorentinTh/it-tools

Windows-Super-God-Mode

Windows-Super-God-Mode

https://github.com/ThioJoe/Windows-Super-God-Mode

The Ultimate Windows Utility

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

Privacy Settings for windows

https://wpd.app/

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Finding Information everywhere:-

Public resources - Websites, directories, email, job sites, Social websites.

Google Hacking database:

https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database

HTTrack Website Copier

https://www.httrack.com/

Montastic is free for open source software

https://www.montastic.com/

StatusOK

Monitor your Website and APIs from your computer. Get notified through Slack or E-mail when your server is down or response time is more than expected.

https://github.com/sanathp/statusok

https://www.shodan.io/

Shodan is the world's first search engine for Internet-connected devices.

Email Header look up

https://mxtoolbox.com/

Metagoofil is an information gathering tool designed for extracting metadata of public documents

https://www.kali.org/tools/metagoofil/

FOCA (Fingerprinting Organizations with Collected Archives)

https://github.com/ElevenPaths/FOCA

theHarvester : Use it for open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine a company's external threat landscape on the internet.

https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester

https://www.kali.org/tools/theharvester/

DMARC, which stands for “Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance”, is an email authentication, policy, and reporting protocol.

https://dmarc.org/

The Anti Hacker Alliance™ fights against Hackers

https://anti-hacker-alliance.com/

tracert google.com

pathping google.com

Network Tools: The Trusted Free Online

https://network-tools.com/

dig Command in Linux

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dig-command-in-linux-with-examples/

https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/main/

https://dnsdumpster.com/

https://who.is/

ip logger : can track geo location using ip logger URL

https://iplogger.org/

SSDP: Simple Service Discovery Protocol

https://www.spiceworks.com/free-network-monitoring-management-software/

NetworkMiner is an open source Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT) for Windows (but also works in Linux / Mac OS X / FreeBSD).

https://www.netresec.com/?page=NetworkMiner

FING App : https://www.fing.com/products/fing-app

Nikto :

Nikto is a free software command-line vulnerability scanner that scans webservers for dangerous files/CGIs, outdated server software and other problems.

https://www.kali.org/tools/nikto/

TOR flow network

https://torflow.uncharted.software/

SSH tunnels:

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

https://www.putty.org/

https://www.mitec.cz/netscan.html

https://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/

https://www.ireasoning.com/mibbrowser.shtml

zaproxy

https://www.kali.org/tools/zaproxy/

gobuster

https://www.kali.org/tools/gobuster/

NetScanTools Basic Edition

https://www.netscantools.com/nstbasicmain.html

LDAP

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ldapadmin/

NIST SP 800-30, Page 78

https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework/nist-sp-800-30

NIST: Common Vulnerability Scoring System Calculator [CVSS]

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln-metrics/cvss/v3-calculator

Learn Vulnerability scan from Web

https://www.hacker101.com/start-here

https://ctf.hacker101.com/auth/login

https://www.hackerone.com/

Commando VM:

https://www.mandiant.com/resources/commando-vm-windows-offensive-distribution

Github link:-

https://github.com/mandiant/commando-vm

Yersinia attack Tool:

https://www.kali.org/tools/yersinia/

Use with Wireshark

https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite2-free-geolocation-data?lang=en

Monitoring Tools:

https://www.nagios.org/

https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus

https://www.gfi.com/

https://sectools.org/

Password cracking Tools:

L0phtCrack 7.2.0 has been released as an open source project

https://gitlab.com/l0phtcrack/l0phtcrack/-/releases

Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables.

https://ophcrack.sourceforge.io/

John the Ripper

Cain and Abel

Secure Hash Algorithms used for hashing the passwords

Rainbow crack:-

http://project-rainbowcrack.com/

Create the Hash format for password

https://www.fileformat.info/tool/hash.htm

Online Reverse Hash Lookup

http://reverse-hash-lookup.online-domain-tools.com/

http://www.md5.cz/

Password Resetting Tool:

https://trinityhome.org/

https://www.password-changer.com/index.html

simda bot free ip scanner

https://checkip.kaspersky.com/

Reference: Transcriptase–Light: A Polymorphic Virus Construction Kit

https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1513&context=etd_projects

OASIS OPEN:

https://www.oasis-open.org/

Some enterprise products as examples

https://www.sonicwall.com/products/firewalls/

Reverse Engineering Malware

https://zeltser.com/mastering-4-stages-of-malware-analysis/

https://cuckoosandbox.org/

malware-traffic-analysis

A source for packet capture (pcap) files and malware samples

https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/

Sniffing Tool and TEchniques

Tools

Android Software - tPacketCapture

https://www.taosoftware.co.jp/en/android/packetcapture/

Linux Tools

Tcpdump

Ettercap

Dsniff

Windows - WhoFi

https://whofi.com/agents/windows/

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) - TrustedSec

https://www.trustedsec.com/

Spamhaus

https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers/

Digital Attack Map

https://www.digitalattackmap.com/

Project Shield

Project Shield, created by Google Cloud and Jigsaw and powered by Google Cloud Armor, provides free unlimited protection against DDoS attacks, a type of digital attack used to censor information by taking websites offline

https://projectshield.withgoogle.com/landing

Repose

is an open-source, RESTful, middleware platform that transparently integrates with your existing infrastructure. Repose provides highly scalable and extensible solutions to API processing tasks such as authentication, rate limiting, API validation, HTTP request logging, and much more.

https://repose.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/REPOSE/overview

Websocketd

http://websocketd.com/

https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd

Cookie hijacking

Tampermonkey:-

https://www.tampermonkey.net/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en

Subterfuge-Framework /Framework for Man-In-The-Middle attacks

https://github.com/Subterfuge-Framework/Subterfuge

Acrylic Wi-Fi Home – WiFi Scanner

https://www.acrylicwifi.com/en/wlan-wifi-wireless-network-software-tools/wlan-scanner-acrylic-wifi-free/

Windows DNS Log Analyser

https://support.moonpoint.com/reviews/software/windows/network/dns/WDLA/

Networking using GN3

GNS3 : https://www.gns3.com/

Suricata

Suricata is the leading independent open source threat detection engine. By combining intrusion detection (IDS), intrusion prevention (IPS), network security monitoring (NSM) and PCAP processing, Suricata can quickly identify, stop, and assess even the most sophisticated attacks.

https://suricata.io/

Security Onion

Security Onion Solutions, LLC is the creator and maintainer of Security Onion, a free and open platform for threat hunting, network security monitoring, and log management. Security Onion includes best-of-breed free and open tools including Suricata, Zeek, Wazuh, the Elastic Stack and many others.

https://securityonionsolutions.com/

Tools

http://websocketd.com/

Google QUIC

burpsuite | Kali Linux Tools

https://www.kali.org/tools/burpsuite/

Testing vulnerable website

http://zero.webappsecurity.com/

OWASP WebGoat - Learn the hack - Stop the attack

https://owasp.org/www-project-webgoat/

Fingerprinting

whatweb

Web Security Dojo

A free open-source self-contained training environment for Web Application Security penetration testing. Tools + Targets = Dojo

https://www.mavensecurity.com/resources/web-security-dojo

How to scrape sitemap: Site map

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sitemap-explorer/jamphegminpokpnalkjiecfoobdnlmfb?pli=1

https://www.seowl.co/sitemap-extractor/

https://robhammond.uk/tools/xml-extract

https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

https://www.mariolambertucci.com/how-to-extract-urls-from-sitemaps/

OSINT Tools

What’s my name Web:

https://whatsmyname.app/

Web Archive:

https://web.archive.org/

URL Scan: https://urlscan.io

Instant Data Scraper:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/instant-data-scraper/ofaokhiedipichpaobibbnahnkdoiiah?pli=1

KASM: https://kasmweb.com/

Epieos: https://epieos.com/

The ultimate OSINT tool for email and phone reverse lookup

Search by Image

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cnojnbdhbhnkbcieeekonklommdnndci

Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/

https://github.com/WebBreacher

DNS Dumpster: https://dnsdumpster.com

Scan for any infected files : dracoeye.com

sherlock: https://www.kali.org/tools/sherlock/

spiderfoot: https://www.kali.org/tools/spiderfoot/

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Music

https://radio.garden/

https://radiooooo.com/

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ACADEMIC WRITING

https://quillbot.com/

https://writesonic.com/

https://chat.openai.com/chat

https://bard.google.com/
https://www.textfixer.com/html/html-list-generator.php

Microsoft Office 2010 Starter Free with Ads support [Word & Excel]

https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/205471-office-2010-starter-downloader/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud0WTQcTgSE

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Resume Building

ATS resume format - which stands for applicant tracking system

https://cultivatedculture.com/resume-bullet-analyzer/

How to create an ATS-Friendly CV

https://uk.indeed.com/career-advice/cvs-cover-letters/ats-friendly-cv

https://nestwork.io/apply/cv-assistant

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Learning

https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/

https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/excel

https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/topics/creativity-and-design/

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Reading

https://www.slugbooks.com/

https://digitaldefynd.com/free-online-courses/

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GROCERIES

https://www.aldi.co.uk/

https://www.asda.com/

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/

https://www.lidl.co.uk/

https://groceries.morrisons.com/

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/

https://www.bmstores.co.uk/

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UTILITIES

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/

https://www.matalan.co.uk/

https://www.diy.com/

https://www.screwfix.com/

https://www.currys.co.uk/

https://www.boots.com/

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Ticketing

https://www.mytrainpal.com/

https://trainsplit.com/

https://www.thetrainline.com/

https://splitticketing.com/

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RENTAL SEARCH

Rightmove - https://www.rightmove.co.uk/

Zoopla - https://www.zoopla.co.uk/

OnTheMarket - https://www.onthemarket.com/to-rent/

OpenRent - https://www.openrent.co.uk/

https://comfortlettings.co.uk/

Most-dangerous-places to Live

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/most-dangerous-places-nottingham-revealed-9348422

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GARDEN:PERENNIAL PLANTS

https://www.diy.com/ideas--advice/outdoor--garden/your-plant-guides/your-guide-to-perennials

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DRIVING

Driving in Great Britain on a non-GB licence

https://www.gov.uk/driving-nongb-licence

Use this tool to see if you can drive in Great Britain with your non-GB driving licence.

Great Britain is England, Wales and Scotland.

Driving licences

Apply for, renew or update your licence, view or share your driving licence, add new categories

https://www.gov.uk/browse/driving/driving-licences

View or share your driving licence information

https://www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence

Mastering UK Driving Test Route with Google Maps Practice

https://www.gouti1454.com/p/practise-driving-test-route-with-google.html

Apps Which can help in booking cancelled slots

https://driving-test-cancellations-now.co.uk/

https://testi-app.co.uk/

Scrapping a Car

https://www.removemycar.co.uk/

Used Cars

Check the MOT history of a vehicle

https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history

Car Auctions

https://www.johnpye.co.uk/

HPI check

A paid service, the HPI check will provide information concerning a stolen car check, insurance write-offs, number of previous owners, and other relevant details.

https://www.theaa.com/cars/aa-cars-standards

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Software

Software /Platform/ Price/ Website

Uninstaller

https://www.revouninstaller.com/revo-uninstaller-free-download/

GIMP/

Windows, Mac OS, Linux/ Free/ https://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape/

Windows, Mac OS, Linux/ Free/ https://inkscape.org/

Krita /

Windows, Mac OS, Linux/ Free/ https://krita.org/

Paint.NET

Windows/ Free/ https://www.getpaint.net/

Blender/

Windows, Mac OS, Linux/ Free/ https://www.blender.org/

Darktable /

Windows, Mac OS, Linux/ Free/ https://www.darktable.org/

Fotor /

Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android/ Free/ https://www.fotor.com/

GIMPShop/

Windows, Mac OS/ Free/ https://www.gimpshop.com/

Photoflare/

Windows, Linux/ Free/ https://www.photoflare.io/

RawTherapee/

Windows, Mac OS, Linux/ Free/ https://rawtherapee.com/

Shotwell/

Windows, Mac OS, Linux/ Free/ https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell

Draw.io Diagrams - Alternative for MS Visio

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/drawio-diagrams/9MVVSZK43QQW?hl=en-us&gl=us

https://www.draw.io/

Free water marker remover from photos

https://www.watermarkremover.io/

LibreELEC

Just enough OS for KODI

An open source, cross-platform Spotify client compatible across multiple platforms

https://github.com/KRTirtho/spotube

Online HTML Tools

https://www.textfixer.com/html/

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HM Land Registry

Prevent Property fraud Sign up to Property Alert

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/property-alert

Find a property / Search for land and property information - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) / What's available close to home? How big is the garden? How big is the car park?