Hacking-where to start

[Ranjith Kumar]

hello people,i am very much interested to know what hacking is and to learn it for sure.as i am a student i cant afford to learn any paid courses online or offline and i cant afford to loose the interest too.i have learned wifi hacking with kali linux(did not misuse it) and now i want to learn actual hacking.so where can i learn????any sites or tutorials u people know,den i'll b greatful to know n learn.please guys if anyone knows it please let me know.where to start...thank-you.

[corrado33]

Go to your local library and rent books on the subject. 

[Cryosec]

is talking about this even permitted on the forum? 

[nitsuga5124]

You can change osk.exe with a cmd.exe and change the password of an administrator account on a school computer with

" net user Administrator * ", if the account is not enabled, just do "net user Administrator /active:yes"

[bcredeur97]

he who is truly interested in a subject can find information regarding it with little issue in this modern world.

[8-Bit Ninja]

2 minutes ago, Cryosec said:

is talking about this even permitted on the forum? 

i guess so, as hes not explicitly stating he wants to use it for illegal purposes.....

[Cela1]

2 minutes ago, Cryosec said:

is talking about this even permitted on the forum? 

No, no it isnt.

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Community Standards

• Talking about piracy in general, broad details, is acceptable however the posting or discussing pirated/hacked/cracked or otherwise nefariously obtained content is not. This includes Windows content, games, hackintosh, etc. Also discussions regarding ways to avoid or block legitimately installed monitoring/tracking software or the like is also not allowed.

 

[dizmo]

2 minutes ago, Cela1 said:

No, no it isnt.

 

That's not really hacking though, that's piracy. Two different things.

[Cryosec]

Just now, Cela1 said:

No, no it isnt.

I wasn't sure, as the rule is about content and monitoring/tracking software. imo it should be a bit more specific, but who am I to discuss the Community Standards? ahah  

[bcredeur97]

4 minutes ago, Cela1 said:

No, no it isnt.

 

did you read it? it says that you cannot discuss content that has been pirated/hacked/cracked. And you cannot discuss avoiding or blocking monitoring/tracking software that is legitimate.

 

discussing hacking and where to find information regarding it, is allowed; however, I encourage people who are interested to find information about it on their own. i.e. you wouldn't tell joe bloe off the street how to break into a safe just because he asked you.

[Cela1]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

That's not really hacking though, that's piracy. Two different things.

Fair enough. I always just thought that was also meant to cover hacking as well though.

[corrado33]

OP: Just for the record. Hacking is not nearly as fun or as glamorous as games/movies make it seem.

[Cryosec]

5 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

OP: Just for the record. Hacking is not nearly as fun or as glamorous as games/movies make it seem.

it's an endless head-scratching overnight coding and reading poorly written code (which is reaaally annoying). all for some lame contract  

[hydra808]

The first, you need to learn programming language language.The other and by the far the most important advantage of programming is that you will be able to understand exploit codes and even learn to write them too, Though there are softwares which have made the process of exploit writing much simpler, but you still need to have a solid grasp of programming languages in order to know how the exploits work.

Now that you have understood the importance of learning programming languages, You might be asking yourself “where to began”, “Which programming language” should I began learning with, Don’t worry, I have seen these types of questions asked a lot in various hacking communities and forums, The answer to these questions is that it depends on your interest.

Web Hacking

Now if you are interested in webhacking subject, subject then I would recommend you to learn the following languages:

1. HTML – Start with Html if you don’t know it

2. Javascript – Next learn javascript, which will help you understanding the fundamentals of cross site scripting which will be explained later in this book.

3. SQL Databases – You should learn to work with databases, which will help you to understand the fundamentals of SQL Injection attacks which will be also explained later in this book when we come to the Web Application hacking chapter.

4. PHP – Learning PHP should be your one of your first priorities if you want to understand the mechanisms behind the web hacking attacks. I would recommend you to learn it as soon as possible.

Recommended Sources:

5. W3schools – W3schools has wide variety of e-learning courses including languages like PHP, HTML, Javascripts etc, If you have zero knowledge of programming languages try starting with HTML and javascript.

Exploit Writing

Exploit writing is a very difficult segment in hacking as it requires pure programming knowledge, which is why I will not recommend you to start with exploit writing, Exploits are/can be coded in almost any programming language e.g C/C++, Python, Perl etc, but more than 50% of the exploits you will find on the web will be coded in C/C++ languages because they were present before any one of other languages. Languages such as C and C++ are considered as programming languages where as languages such as ruby, perl and python are considered more as scripting languages.

I would recommend you to start with C languages and then to C++, C/C++ have lots of similarities, so if you could get a good grasp on any one of them you can learn the other one easily.

Ruby

Talking about scripting languages, I would recommend you to start with Ruby, Ruby is one of my most favorite programming language as it’s purely objected oriented which means that everything you work on is an object. Ruby is really useful when it comes to exploit writing, Ruby is used for coding meterpreter scripts and what could be more better that the Metasploit framework itself was coded in ruby language.

Python

Python is also a very useful programming language, it can also be used for exploit writing, If you go for python first then make sure that you learn Python socket programming as it will help you a lot in the exploit creation process.

PERL

Talking about PERL, it’s also used widely for exploit writing, you will find lots of exploits out there written in PERL, but the problem is that perl is really difficult compared to other languages such as ruby and python, so I would recommend you to learn it at the very end.

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, Cryosec said:

is talking about this even permitted on the forum? 

1 hour ago, Cela1 said:

No, no it isnt.

 

Hacking is making software or hardware do something that it wasn't designed to do. Or taking over its controls and making it do what you want. Cracking would be the illegal part where copyright protections, firewalls and other security methods are circumvented. Media (and gamers) are to blame for mixing the terms. Though they have good reasons since many early hackers would go and break into government and commercial services just for fun of it.

[Bouzoo]

1 hour ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

 

Hacking is making software or hardware do something that it wasn't designed to do. Or taking over its controls and making it do what you want. Cracking would be the illegal part where copyright protections, firewalls and other security methods are circumvented. Media (and gamers) are to blame for mixing the terms. Though they have good reasons since many early hackers would go and break into government and commercial services just for fun of it.

To be fair the discussion is not about some hacked content or how to hack something, it's where to learn about stuff that you find interesting, in this case hacking. Seems like a fine thread that is not breaking any standards. 

[LogicalDrm]

5 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

To be fair they the discussion is not about some hacked content or how to hacked something, it's where to learn about stuff that you find interesting, in this case hacking. Seems like a fine thread that is not breaking any standards. 

Indeed. But for some reason people here freak out whenever thread as words "hacking" and "torrent". Which both include both legal and illegal activities. Thats why I felt the need to clarify meaning of the term.

[NunoLava1998]

14 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Indeed. But for some reason people here freak out whenever thread as words "hacking" and "torrent". Which both include both legal and illegal activities. Thats why I felt the need to clarify meaning of the term.

torrents can be illegal or legal:

legal: downloading free software like Ubuntu with MUCH faster speed

illegal: downloading that hackintosh iso which is hidden between a layer of a zip then you have another torrent then you have a iso then you unzip it and then you get it

(seriously)

[LogicalDrm]

14 minutes ago, NunoLava1998 said:

torrents can be illegal or legal:

legal: downloading free software like Ubuntu with MUCH faster speed

illegal: downloading that hackintosh iso which is hidden between a layer of a zip then you have another torrent then you have a iso then you unzip it and then you get it

(seriously)

Yes? Which is why it reads both contain illegal and legal activities.

[Xanthe_2871]

@LoGiCalDrm @bcredeur97 @Cela1 Since hacking can be legitimate, I don't think the entire subject is banned here. But something like "How do I hack into my work's database to increase my hourly pay" or "How do I hack into my neighbor's computer to plant illegal pornography" or "How do I hack Linus so I can blackmail him" would be banned.

 

As for OP, this is a good introduction into the topic:

 

[Canada EH]

Hacking is a term to describe illegal actions.

[LogicalDrm]

29 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

Hacking is a term to describe illegal actions.

No... Its term describing action where someone takes control over software or hardware. Which can be both legal or illegal.

[Tosa]

A common way for malicious hackers to beach into a company's systems today is calling or emailing some of the employees and fool them into giving you their username and password. 

[Litargirio]

19 hours ago, corrado33 said:

OP: Just for the record. Hacking is not nearly as fun or as glamorous as games/movies make it seem.

 

Pretty much:

 

 

 

 

 

[vorticalbox]

Kali.