How to become take white hat hacking as a profession?

Question

Im pretty new to this huge community, I joined in with dream to become a professional white hat hacker, and the first thing that comes to my mind is how to do become one

Answer 1

It really depends on what you actually want to focus on. As an Ethical Hacker you need to learn a few things first.

You need to know C at least the basics of C. You need to have a good understanding of OOP and how Pointers Work.
After that, you need to understand how the CPU works, in order to be capable of learning Assembly. Assembly will help you with Reverse Engineering and Reverse Engineering is going to help you to modify different software, therefore it can actually help you "hack" it.

Now, the Web "Hacking" part is a little bit easier, you don't really need to be that "skilled". I personally have friends that got on the Paypal Hall of Fame even if they were stupid as fuck and knew 0 programming.
I also had friends that discovered vulnerabilities in big websited like Nasa.gov.

There are different Web Vulnerabilities, the most popular ones are SQLI (SQL Injection) and XSS (Cross Site Scripiting).
SQL Injection allows the attacker to run queries in the Website Database without really having acces to it. XSS allows the attacker to put put code in the Website Source and that can lead to stealing Cookies or Phisiing and stuff like that.

Hacking itself it's not something that you can simply learn. You need to know how to build something in order to be able to "destroy" it.
I recommend you start by learning PHP and SQL. Create your own websites and secure them, then start looking for ways to actually "hack" them and then secure them again.

There's also another type of Hacking which is "Human Hacking" it is called Social Engineering.
This type of hacking consts in manipulating the victim using different psycholgy tricks to get you what you want (Login data or secret data that can help you gain access to their company).

Anyway, at the moment you should focus on creating things :)

Answer 2

The best way is to learn more about hacking and security. Too be a security expert you have to know what kinds of things the enemy is going to be able to do so you need to in turn learn how to hack things.

Answer 3

Thanx man

Answer 4

Thanx man

Answer 5

if you're in college and wanna do this as a profession its called information assurance they teach you how to pick locks and do all sorts of neat things

Answer 6

A link to a more recent thread on hacking

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/563537/?ref=app