Ethical Hacking Tutorial — Hacking Skills

Ethical Hacking Tutorial — Hacking Skills

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Now, in today's tutorial I will talk about some of the hacking skills. Nowadays, many still don't know that hacking is not an easy task that anyone could just jump into as an ethical hacker, crackers, programmers, gurus, geeks or security engineers you will need to understand various hacking techniques such as below listed −

 

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• Password guessing and cracking
• Session hijacking
• Session spoofing
• Network traffic sniffing
• Denial of Service attacks
• Exploiting buffer overflow vulnerabilities
• SQL injection

Now, if you have been following this from day one to this time, you should have achieve one or two things in hacking. So, today we will discuss some of the skills that you would require to become an expert in Ethical Hacking.

 

1. Basic Skills

Computer Hacking is a Science as well as an Art. Like any other expertise, you need to put a lot of effort in order to acquire knowledge and become an expert hacker or security engineers.

Once you are on the track, you would need more effort to keep up-to-date with latest technologies, new vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques.

• An ethical hacker must be a computer systems expert and needs to have very strong programming and computer networking skills.
• An ethical hacker needs to have a lot of patience, persistence, and perseverance to try again and again and wait for the required result.

Additionally, an ethical hacker should be smart enough to understand the situation and other users’ mind-set in order to apply social engineering exploits. A good ethical hacker has great problem-solving skills too. Check out How to Kill Friend's WiFi Connection on your Devices With WifiKill Android Apk. 

 

2. Courses & Certifications

This tutorial provides the basic guidelines to become a successful Ethical Hacker. If you want to excel in this field, then you might choose to pursue the following courses and certifications −

• Obtain a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or A Certificate to gain an understanding of the most common hardware and software technologies.
• Get into a programmer’s role for a few years and then switch to get a tech support position.
• Proceed to get network certifications like Network or CCNA and then security certifications like Security , CISSP, or TICSA.
• It is recommended that you get some work experience as a Network Engineer and System Administrator to understand networks and systems inside out.
• Keep going through various books, tutorials and papers to understand various computer security aspects and take them as a challenge to secure your network and computer systems as network security engineer.
• Study courses which cover creating Trojan horses, backdoors, viruses, and worms, denial of service (DoS) attacks, SQL injection, buffer overflow, session hijacking, and system hacking.
• Master the art of penetration testing, footprinting and reconnaissance, and social engineering.
• Finally go for a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Certification.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) are additional IT security certifications which will add a lot of value to your profile. Check out 14 Android Hacking Apps To Turn Your Android Into A Hacking Device.  

 

 Conclusion (Final Note) 

You need to stay as a White Hat Hacker which means you need to work within given boundaries. Never intrude or attack any computer or network without a required permission from the authorities. As a conclusion note, it is highly recommended that you refrain from engaging yourself in black hat hacking and other types of hacking which could put you in problem or sent you in jail (Top 13 Online Activities That Could Send You In Jail (3,5,6 and 9 will Shock You) <here>) or which could spoil your entire career in life.