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donchizy

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Re: An Ethical Hacker must have these skills...

« Reply #60 on: November 13, 2010, 10:55:42 PM »

thank you all for the post it has been educating and at the same time confusing, i really need a mentor and someone to guide me, i am a student studing computer science, this is just me 2nd year but have a dream of becoming a CEH the big question is where do i start from which knowledge do i need before enbarking for the course. I will appretiate ur advice and thanks in advance.


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Re: An Ethical Hacker must have these skills...

« Reply #61 on: November 13, 2010, 11:13:25 PM »

It would help if we knew what you already had good grounding in. Also what besides or why do you want a CEH? Do you want it just to have it? Do you want it as a stepping stone to something else?

How are you at Networking, System Administration and programming? What hacking have you looked at or tried? Do you know Virtualization yet?

Couple of things to look into:
The rest of this site. Including the Features tabs where things get reviewed.
Hacking For Dummies (it's a good start).
Hacking Dojo
Infosec Mentors (not a bad program. I have or had a mentor, but we didn't really click).
Offensive Security's WiFu course.
The Security + cert (Appears to give a broad overview of all aspects of security).


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Re: An Ethical Hacker must have these skills...

« Reply #62 on: June 01, 2011, 09:17:52 PM »

Hi, I frame my learning process into 3 main parts:
1. Host
Learn to be comfortable using and configuring both Windows based and Linux based OSes.
I have a laptop that I dual boot to have both windows and Backtrack. By forcing myself to use Backtrack(linux) I was able to learn many linux commands fast.

2. Applications
Learn to built your own website with any language E.g. PHP
Learn to configure web application servers E.g. Apache or IIS
Learn to configure databases E.g. MySQL

3. Networks
Read up on TCP/IP and understand how packets flow and formed in the networks.
A very good book to start reading is TCP/IP Illustrated. However, do note that it is very dry.
Make use of wireshark to collect network traffic while you start surfing the web. By looking at the packets collected and cross reference to TCP/IP Illustrated book you can learn alot about networks.
Last but not least google is your friend. God Bless. Wink


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El33tsamurai

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Re: An Ethical Hacker must have these skills...

« Reply #63 on: June 21, 2011, 01:38:59 PM »

I would say able to read and spend many hours reading about this stuff. I find myself going online and watching tutorials , reading forums and websites like ethicalhacker.net, going to the local book store reading hacking books and hacking mags like hakin9. The more I read the more I learn and can add to my ethical hacking skills.


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YuckTheFankees

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Re: An Ethical Hacker must have these skills...

« Reply #64 on: October 15, 2011, 12:57:51 PM »

peta909,

Very good post! I pretty much have 1 and 3 taken care of but I'm a little weak in the application area. I'll be able to improve my web application server knowledge through my linux +/ red hat training..PHP I can learn online..and I havent figured out MySQL yet. Great Thread!


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Re: An Ethical Hacker must have these skills...

« Reply #65 on: October 17, 2011, 03:47:24 AM »

I think it all depends on what area you want to work in. Most of what I have learned has been from doing tutorials and watching video and mostly network stuff. I landed a job a fews months ago that required me to test web apps so now in process trying learn as much as I can about web apps.

It might also be useful to stick with what you know to start off with if you good network then try learn as much as you can about them.


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charliemong

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Re: An Ethical Hacker must have these skills...

« Reply #66 on: November 03, 2011, 02:36:59 PM »

Quote from: rance on March 11, 2008, 11:36:11 AM

Quote from: pseud0 on March 05, 2008, 12:36:02 PM

Necessary ethical hacker skills, the starter edition:
TCP/IP
OS basics for M$ and the *IX distro of your choice
Internal network basics (switches, hubs, firewalls)
A sense of humor (preferably dirty but manic is also acceptable)
External network basics (routing, IP, interaction with internal networks, etc)
Relationship between services, ports, and how exploits work
Washboard abs
Some familiarity with coding (not expert, but can muddle through)
Understanding of general web application construction (front/back end, etc)
A WOW account (maybe EverQuest if you roll like that)
Some level of business sense (need to explain business impact of your findings)
A comfort level with your skin tone being 3 shades more pasty than your racial peers

Washboard abs?! Well, that disqualifies almost everyone I know in IT.

The skin complexion though? Got that one nailed...

Am with you on the skin tone but Abs??? try AB! lol


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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
- Sun Tzu

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Re: An Ethical Hacker must have these skills...

« Reply #67 on: December 13, 2011, 09:02:06 AM »

Hi everyone in the house, I am newbie here, I don't even know where to start from now so please if anyone know or have ebook on ethical hacking should please help me with it.


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