How to become a hacker

How to become a hacker

It has become very common that many computer users want to learn and become a hacker, thanks to the image of hacker that is presented in the mediawhich is a bit exaggerated, in reality ahacker ha

• s multiple definition depending on the culture that we approach him. Acomputer hacker is someone who exploits systems without having the privilege to access them, and there is two kinds of hackers depending on their activity; black hats the ones who hack for personal interest and the ethical ones white hats whom help the computer community to enforce security and stand against cybercrime.
• Some of you will ask “How much it will take to become a hacker? “, well it depends on your abilities to learn and computer skills that you already have also on which level of hacker if you want to become an elite hacker that takes a long time maybe years, some can lean to hack just in fews weeks and others can take them months ,so it all have to do on you abilities and your motives.
• So now you have an idea about what a hacker is about, and before beginning on how to become a hacker you have to know the abilities and skills that are needed, firstly you must assume that intelligence is the main factor in hacking practices the more intelligent hacker you are the more you achieve, additionally it is preferred if you have already a basic knowledge in networking and coding but if not it is not a problem you can learn that later as long as you are motivated to become a hacker.
• let start on how you become a hacker; i will demonstrate this leaning process in separated tasks that when you finish ;you are good to go.

1. learn and understand how computers works and communicate:it is important to know about how computer works and communicate because in this way you can see the weaknesses of computers and its networks, explaining how computer and it network work isn’t an easy task just give your self time to it. here is some helpful links (well chosen ones :D)  about this subject:
   How computer work YouTube videos series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtqjxyV9t1I&list=PL0253EC51AF4109D0
   How computer work article: http://www.explainthatstuff.com/howcomputerswork.html
   An article about Operating Systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
   OSI model (the present model of INTERNET): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
   Network Architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_architecture
2. Learn to code and reading codes:in order to learn to hack it’s recommended to understand programming languages, what i suggest is to begin with HTML and Python because you’ll need HTML to read source code from web pages and Python will be an easy introduction to programming language ,also Java and Javascript may be a nice step.
   here it some useful link to learn programming:
   http://www.w3schools.com/html/ (for learning HTML)
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWPMSSsVdPk (HTML video tutorial)
   http://www.learnpython.org/ (for learning Python)
3. learn to hack and exploit:here is the most important part in our subject, first of all you should know what kind of hacking you want to learn and what you want to hack, to answer this question i will give you different hacking practices and a tutorial related to it:
   Websites applications hacking: https://www.websecurify.com/vulnerabilities.html
   OS exploitation for windows: https://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/using-exploits/Password cracking: http://www.alphr.com/features/371158/top-ten-password-cracking-techniques
   Social engineering: http://www.hackersonlineclub.com/social-engineering
4. Solve hacking challenges:there is plenty of hacking challenges in the web and it’s a good place to improve you hacking skills to the top, and here is a best known ones:
   A list of challenge websites (including: programing, reversing, cracking…) by WeChall:http://www.wechall.net/active_sites
   Or you can just search for challenge by googling “hacking challenges”.
5. Expend you knowledge by using search engines:well everything you need is on the web, to get the information and tools you need you have to search in a large domain and always keeping the useful resources.
6. Get close to hacking communities:getting close into people in the field of hacking may help you to lean more and explore this dark world, you can do this by enjoying hacking forums like hackforums.net and reddit’s hacking subreddit. Also hacking conferences worth to watch, here is some of them:
   Defcon conferences: https://www.youtube.com/user/DEFCONConference/videos
   Blackhat conferences: https://www.youtube.com/user/BlackHatOfficialYT/videos
   Chaos Computer club: https://www.youtube.com/user/CCCdeVideos/videos

Some important books:
Hacking for dummies
Hacking – The Art of Exploitation_2nd Ed

And please don’t hesitate to ask questions and post suggestions in comments!