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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: MacMan on March 30, 2012, 02:39 am

Title: Want to learn how to hack, where do i start?
Post by: MacMan on March 30, 2012, 02:39 am
Hey so i wasnt sure what thread to put this in but anyways, Ive been wanting to learn how to hack for quite some time now and i was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction to where i should start?
Any books, programs you would recommend?

thanks
Title: Re: Want to learn how to hack, where do i start?
Post by: mdmamail on March 30, 2012, 02:57 am
Easy, download Hacking, The Art of Exploitation 2nd edition ebook, and pay attention to using the Gnu debugger on CPU registers in the first chapter, download Metasploit the Pen Testers 2011 guide, and get A Bug Hunters Diary from nostarch press. Can easily google to find all of those ebooks free. Take the first few compsci courses on MIT's opencourseware website and that's all you need. They are blueprints to be able to program in basically any language, all high level languages are almost the same.

The bug hunter's diary is epic. Because that's what you're looking for, zero day exploits to well, exploit so you can escalate to root, smash the stack and install backdoors or sell to that shady intelligence company @VUPEN. Lot's of JS 0-day being passed around these days, the Black Hole Exploit kit is full of JS exploits. Side channel attacking ftw. iOS exploits are going for $250,000 right now and there are plenty of them, same with Android exploits.

After you delve into the world of side channel attacking you will never want to use any graphical browser ever again or trust any link somebody sends you.

tl;dr be an amateur software engineer, learn security, find bugs, exploit them for profit.