Getting started with hacking 

1. Understand ‘hacking’:

Ethical hacking refers to the act of locating weaknesses and vulnerabilities of computer and information systems by duplicating the intent and actions of malicious hackers

This is the part which most beginners skip but if you ask any professional hacker or anyone who is related to some field like this will tell you that this is the most basic and important part which is going to help you in your way to becoming an expert hacker. Most of the time people fascinates hacking because they think that hacking is doing some cool stuff like hacking FB id or wifi or compromising someone’s information without their prior consent but this is totally wrong and is termed “Blackhat” in the hacking world. Actually hacking means solving a problem, and if you wish to make a career in ethical hacking then you should be aware of its legal terms, we do hack into someone else’s technology but only after their legally written permission and hacking is done just to make sure that the security being used presently by the user is up to date and do not have any sort of loophole inside, if there is any sort of gap we try to give it a patch and that’s what ethical hacking is all about. So be careful and start exploring the world of hacking only after you understand “hacking”.

2. Learn programming

Almost each and everything which we see around us in this digital world where we are constantly surrounded by technologies is nothing but a computer program which uses some sort of complex algorithms and is made up of hundreds of programming languages. Learning basic programming has become a necessity for all of us but if you aspire to make a career in hacking or just want to do some cool hacking stuff to impress your friends then programming is something which must be on your tips. Understand it like this, you are in a foreign country but you do not know their language it is obviously going to be very hard for you to communicate with them similarly if you do not know programming then how will you make the computer work for you.

You can start with C as it is the most basic yet a powerful programming language, practice coding in c and then you can move on to C++, C#, python etc.

For a hacker there are some must know languages, languages which are mostly used in web applications ex-PHP,javascript, python, SQL. If you know these languages then it is very easy for you to manipulate and make changes using them.

3. Know Linux

Linux is the best-known and most-used open source operating system, and unlike Windows or Mac, it is free of cost. It is built on C and has the basis of Unix technology. Linux is the operating system which gives you the user full control of all the activities and processes which means Linux is very easy to modify and customize.

In hacking, you must be aware of the operating system that you are using and most probably the operating system that you are attacking, you should understand its technology to a larger extent and Linux is totally transparent which makes it easier for us to understand.

Linux not only gives us the power to customize but it also comes with some great preloaded utilities which makes hacking life more easier.

4. Meet Kali

We talked about Linux and its importance in hacking in the previous section, now we are going to look at what we call “The Hacker’s Paradise”. Kali Linux is something about which we all have heard somewhere. And if you are crazy about hacking then you must know what it is, Kali is an updated and fully customized version of Linux which comes with hundreds of preloaded tools and utilities which makes hacking a lot easier for us. It also allows us to install or to make our own tools. It also has a great GUI which makes it easy for you to work on it although Using command line (root) over GUI is always recommended for a hacker because it makes the grip better.

For you to become a hacker kali is something which you should worship like a dog. Install Kali learn it, practice the command line until you become comfortable with it. Once you start using Kali Linux you will automatically know its http://importance.SO get Kali and let the fun begin!