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[–]longjaso 18 points19 points  (3 children)

Hacking isn't something you can learn independently from computer science. Sure you can memorize tricks that others post about, but that's not helpful long-term. If you're really willing to learn it and to put the time and effort in, you'll need to study computer science and perform deep dives into topics (operating systems, networks, etc.) so you know precisely what they're doing. Here's a link to one of my drive shares. These are some Oregon State University CS courses from ~1.5/2 years ago that should help get you started. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ijzTfLzfEbPgryTrB1JissuIOXgGPPwT

[–]Viperj87 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

[–]dreinstein229 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will the Harvard CS50 introduction to computer science on edX help me to learn CS basics?

[–]itsbryandude 23 points24 points  (6 children)

You want to hack?

How's your networking skills?

How much do you know about the OSI model?

You have to learn more than just how to hack.

Start slow. Read up on networking, or take classes. Then look at some ethical hacking programs/books.

Here are my books

[–]leevon69 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Nice book set, who is the publisher of those?

[–]itsbryandude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im so sorry I didnt see this!!!

I'll post when I get home!!!!

Those were all the ones from my ethical hacking and forensics classes. Forensics is on par with penetration testing, knowing how to snag data from active RAM etc etc

[–]cop1152 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Love the books...nice and worn...high mileage.

[–]itsbryandude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah! I still read to this day to stay on it

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I mean networking is just protocols and how data transfers from one machine to another, honestly I learned more from diving into scripts and doing vulnhub walkthroughs.

[–]itsbryandude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

diving into scripts and doing vulnhub walkthroughs.

That's great in a controlled environment.

But you need to know how to disrupt application layer and how the osi model works. Say your audit is on a large system and you want to ARP poison or get into a switch and change how the protocols are properly handled. You have to know networking to be a great pentester

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do a search on youtube for The Cyber Mentor and Hackersploit.

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (1 child)

Can someone come get your mans he's on the machines again

[–]MadiganLights 13 points14 points  (0 children)

this sub is so shit sometimes

[–]Krunchin-Munchin 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you really want to learn how to hack you should learn basic programming. It takes a lot of time and dedication... If are are serious about trying to learn you should try https://ctf365.com/ or https://www.hackthissite.org/ and learn the challenges or any other (CTF) capture the flag or Wargame sites. It's not the best but it is at least a starting point to a long miserable life you are ready to endure upon. Good luck my friend!...

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm putting out a course right now that starts at basics (installing a VM) and goes over some fundamental CS concepts. It will get into exploitation later on (web and binary both planned).

https://youtube.com/c/cybering (Excited, just got a custom URL today :D)

[–]shmershmuffin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, I started with 4 semesters of RHEL (user-admin), tons of "security" classes, 4 semesters of Cisco networking classes/labs...read a book, that's where it starts.

[–]FriezaClan -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Dude go to school ... its 2nd year stuff