Deep side of ethical hacking

Hello guys how are you?,today I am writing my second post regarding ethical hacking and in this give you a detailed description of my knowledge that how you can start your career as a white hat hacker.

For knowing about what is ethical hacking you can view my previous post on

Ethical-hacking

Well if you know what is ethical hacking then we should proceed further.

Firstly, I will tell you about the operating systems which you should have when you want to start your career as an ethical hacker.If you have windows 7 its okay but it will not give you those tools which are required for testing and all.So now its time to install a linux Os on your system,and there are many kinds of linux there.

OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR   ETHICAL HACKERS

• Kali linux( Mostly preferred)
• Parrot security OS
• Backbox linux
• Samurai webtesting framework
• Ubuntu linux

So these are some OS which you can install and run on your systems,they are freely availableonthe internet.And I also provided you with the link of kali linux in my previous post.Dont be tensed I will give you again ☺ 

Now what are the ADVANTAGES of these OS over others:

• More tools for security testing.
• You can become Anonymous( means you canhide your IP address)
• Freedom( here you can change the Os according to your needs)
• Open licensed
• Free
• Security
• Compatibility( with latest hardware)

Installation

I will give you a post for installing Kali linux soon. But if you are in hurry and start now I will give you a brief idea as its very simple.

So you can install these in two ways,either as an independent Os with or without your previous Os or you can install it in a virtual environment(which is most recommended).So for an independent Os you just have to download the iso and install it.You can see the steps on some youtube video,many are there And talking about the virtual environment it means that you can install your Os in a virtual software which will be installed on your previous system,and there is an other image for that.Don't you worry I will give you a post on both methods but for now you can search on youtube,you will get it.

BASICS OF KALI LINUX YOU SHOULD KNOW

Now after you will install kali and any other OS you have to know some basic things of it.

After installation you will see a login screen like win7 and default user and password is root and toor

but you can change it later.I will say you to add a new user and always work on that because working on root user is not safe.

Now your desktop looks like this below

You can see there is a side dock and some icons on top.Now firstly you should open terminal,it is a black window with >- this on it

Now i will tell you some basic commands you can use in this terminal:

                                                       BASIC COMMANDS

• cd = change directory. Ex.cd /desktop/root
• ls = For listing contents of the current directory. Ex. ls 
• nano = It is used for editing some text file on terminal. Ex. nano abc.txt
• Sudo = Superuser
• mkdir =  Make a directory Ex.Mkrdir abc
• Ifconfig = Details of networks,like IP,Dns etc.
• clear = Clear the screen.
• chmod = Change access permissions.
• echo = Display message on screen. Ex.echo my name is xxx.  

NOTE: Dont forget to get the resources and modules you require from the internet.You have to install necessary resources from the command itself,its not like windows that you download from a browser and install it.You can visit official site for more details.

WEBSITES FOR LEARNING ETHICAL HACKING

I told you about some websites in my previous post but these are also there where you can know more    

about ethical hacking.

• Hacking tutorial
• Hackaday
• Breakthesecurity
• Evilzone
• Hackthissite
• Sectools
• Hack in the box

NOTE:-You can also earn money from your hacking skills by becoming a bug bounty member.In short,these are the sites which are connected to other big sites and you have to found a bug in that site which affects their security.They award you from $50 to >$20000.The one i like is hackerone.Register and start founding bugs.

TOP ETHICAL HACKERS STORIES

• SANMAY VED:  He was an Ex-googler and google paid out $12000 to him after he was able to purchase the domain name google.com for one minute in 2015.

• ANONYMOUS: I dont know their real name but a security company Zerodium launched a competetion to find a way to take over ipads and iphones using the latest versions of IOS.Two teams competed but only one was able to meet the terms of the bounty.

• Roy castillo: He has a lot of achievements.Not only did he report the stored XSS in gmail for IOS but he also reported a bug in Facebook which exposed the users primary email address.

• Frans Rosen: The founder of detectify,Mr Frans Rosen,has been responsible for finding XSS vulnerability in Mega.Rank wise,he is on the top names of the hackerone.He has been consistent in reporting vulnerabilities.

• Nir Goldshlager: The man responsible for bypassing Imperva web application firewall with his unique research position.In 2012,he held the top rank in facebook security hall of fame.  

  

So these were some stories of ethical hackers i found interesting.You can find more on google.So after reading such stories we feel that they can do why can't we do.So guys be positive and learn from your heart, and you will get success.So dont waste your time and start learning.If you got any problems and want to know something more just comment below and I will try to solve it.If you like my blog please follow and share it.Give in comments your problem and next time post on it.

Be in touch to my blog as I will now start exploring the deep such as tools and attacks,scripts,codes.

Saying truly I am not also perfect in these things and wanna be so you can also share new things which I dont know and I will also keep posting.

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