Hi AMP,

Welcome to the forums! This is a professional forum and worrying about anyone flaming you for asking for help doesn't happen here.

Your question asked is actually the most common question we get here and we have no problem helping out. Your post was just a tad vague in what your wanting, but I'm assuming your wanting to learn where to start to eventually land a job doing Ethical Hacking.

A good thread to start with the subject would be here. There are lots of solid links on the thread that will help you out (:

Happy new year!
Kris

I can see where I was a tad vague on what I was wanting, yes landing a job doing Ethical Hacking would be fantastic, that would all depend on if I can ever come up with the money to afford to go back to school for it which is something I really wanna do.

To answer you're question n3r, I personally have no real knowledge in programming, or with linux, I know sounds really bad that I wanna learn this and have no real skills of any kind. The only people I know with the ability to make a computer do a strip tease as my wife puts it live on the other side of the country and I haven't spoken to them in years. So sadly to say I'm trying to do this with nothing.

So the advice I can get from everyone is greatly appreciated.

Determine where your current strengths are and build on those.  There are many attack vectors involved with ethical hacking and you cannot be in expert in all, or maybe you can in which case you are probably a robot and won't need to be asking such questions  

For instance what is your base computer background?  Have you done system admin work, helpdesk?  Network admin?  Desktop support?  etc...  Are you interested in breaking people's websites and then telling them how to prevent such breaking in the future? 

Many successful folks that have gone the EH route had started somewhere in IT, whether it be a programmer or a Systems admin.  So some skills in the IT field will help determine your focus in Ethical Hacking.

Have you ever read counter hack reloaded?

It's a very good book. It might help you see the bigger picture an the overall anatomy of an attack and potentially defending that attack. It might give you some insight into figuring out if you want to be on the offensive side, defensive side, IR/IH etc.

I will add the "Stealing the network" series of books.  They cover a variety of subject matters from owning the box to owning an identity.  The Identity one was a great read, done in a more fictional sense so it was a fun book to read.