Reddit mentions of Real Digital Forensics: Computer Security and Incident Response

It really depends on what niche you're looking on covering. It's difficult, I feel, to brush up on "infosec" to any level of practical proficiency without focusing on a few subsets. Based on your interests, I would recommend the following books.

General Hacking:

Hacking Exposed

The Art of Exploitation

The Art of Deception



Intrusion Detection / Incident Response:

Network Flow Analysis

The Tao of Network Security Monitoring

Practical Intrusion Analysis

Real Digital Forensics


Reverse Engineering:

Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering

The Ida Pro Book

Malware Analyst Cookbook

Malware Forensics



Digital Forensics:

File System Forensic Analysis

Windows Forensic Analysis

Real Digital Forensics

The Rootkit Arsenal


Hope this helps. If you're a University student, you might have access to Safari Books Online, which has access to almost all of these books, and more. You can also purchase a personal subscription for like $23 a month. It's a bit pricey, but they have an awesome library of technical books.

Few books for you to consider - I got these for my course and are hugely useful. I've also included the Encase book as I know our forensics guys go back to it all the time:

Computer forensics using open source tools

The essential Brian Carrier - file system forensics

Real Digital Forensics

Encase training book

Digital Forensics Investigation

Forensic Discovery

Mind sharing the links? There's a few "Hack this site" websites ranging from user uploaded files and I've seen one which is more based on javascript and SQL injection.

Have you thought about looking at crackme? There's also the Microsoft Blue Hat Challenge. Forensic Focus also provide a list of resources to practice with.

There's always books as well. I'm currently working through Real Digital Forensics that comes with files used in the book and explain how it was gathered and how to view it.

There's plenty of resources out there, but you've got to be a bit more specific on what challenge you're looking for, as there's a range of subjects.