How to Become an Ethical Hacker? Step-By-Step Full Guide
Hacking is not something you can learn by simply reading eBooks, reading this article, watching YouTube videos, liking hacking related facebook pages or by following some websites. But these are very important to practice for hacking and to raise your interest and gain more knowledge. Yes, It needs a lot more efforts. You have to be constantly updated with the latest technology and you should do a lot of live hacking then only will you reach near perfection.
Now, If you are serious about learning this stuff, you must have patience and knowledge of following:
1. Programming
A programmer or developer knows how to develop a software and a website. This software or websites may be very important and require better security. Here, a role of hacker will be as a security analyst who should find the flaws in the programs or websites and help a programmer to make it more secure. It is not possible if the hacker doesn’t have the knowledge of programming and development. So, You have to keep patience and learn programming. I have already written some articles that will help you to understand programming and development.
2. Networking
The knowledge of networking is very essential. We daily share a lot of stuff on the internet. Some data may be shared publicly but some data must be secured like your passwords, pictures, bank information etc. An ethical hacker must have the ability to find out any flaw in the network security. If he/she is well aware of the working of an internet, he/she can figure out most of the problems on the network. I am mentioning some articles that will help you to learn about internet concepts and the reality of passwords you daily use.
3. Cryptography
Do you know whenever you Log-In to your bank website (or any website that requires high security), It encrypts your information so nobody can understand what your information is? It is possible with cryptography. There are basically two terms used in the cryptography:
Encryption
Decryption
Encryption is changing real data into another form so nobody can understand and decryption is getting back the information that were changed into the another form. The data can be de-crypted by the same system that is used for encryption using the same technology.
So, a hacker must have knowledge of cryptography and its algorithms and key concepts. It is definitely not hard to learn if you learn with proper interest .
4. Database Management system
If you know the programming and development then you must know how the website or program is developed. We will have knowledge of networking so we will find out whether the host is properly connected and secured or not. With the help of cryptography, we will insure that how much the data is secured.
But is there something missing? Yes, we did not talk about the databases. All the data we share on the internet through any website is saved somewhere in databases. And these databases contain very important and sensitive information which must be only visible to authorize person like our bank account (Though, a Facebook account is more important). Even if the data is encrypted, A hacker may brute-force the algorithms and decrypts the data. So , A database must be properly secured from attacks.
To be an ethical hacker, you must have to know how data is stored , how data is retrieved and how it can be secured.
5. Linux
Linux is powerful. It’s also free, and 100% open source, meaning anyone can look at each and every line of code in the Linux kernel and patch it when problems arise, means that Linux can be secured not just by a few programmers locked away in some corporate headquarters, but by any user at any time. This is one thing , but there are 99 more.
That’s all . I might not satisfied you hunger to learn hacking but trust me there is nothing you can do if you just ignored the whole article.
source: technotification
