Great answer, mfillpot. I can work with that. Thank you.

Lol, all of it, Mfillpot. I am reading a book written by Patrick Engebretson, called "The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing." It covers the basics and it is just what I need. In this book he covers Backtrack.

Are there books you can recommend? Have you ever used distributions such as IPcop Firewall?

I will be grateful for your answers.

Thank you for your answers.

I want to dive into the topics networking/security. I have some working knowledge of Linux: I use Ubuntu Linux, Chakra Linux, Puppy Linux. And I know the terminal well.

My question: where to start? What books do you recommend that I should read on these topics? Where did you start? Btw, I have a higher education.

Any help on this is more than welcome.