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Margarita R. Cave October 8, 2020
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The ultimate two-path guide to information security.

Before I begin – everything about this should be totally and completely ethical at its core. I’m not saying this as any sort of legal coverage, or to not get somehow sued if any of you screw up, this is genuinely how it should be. The idea here is information security. I’ll say it again. information security. The whole point is to make the world a better place. This isn’t for your reckless amusement and shot at recognition with your friends. This is for the betterment of human civilization. Use your knowledge to solve real-world issues. Long story short, below you can find how to start hacking.

There’s no singular all-determining path to ‘hacking’, as it comes from knowledge from all areas that eventually coalesce into a general intuition. Although this is true, there are still two common rapid learning paths to ‘hacking’. I’ll try not to use too many technical terms.



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The first is the simple, effortless, and result-instant path.

This involves watching youtube videos with green and black thumbnails with an occasional anonymous mask on top teaching you how to download well-known tools used by thousands daily – or in other words the ‘Kali Linux Copy Pasterino Skidder’. You might do something slightly amusing and gain a bit of recognition and self-esteem from your friends. Your hacks will be ‘real’, but anybody that knows anything would dislike you as they all know all you ever did was use a few premade tools. The communities for this sort of shallow result-oriented field include Reddit’s subreddit r/HowToHack and r/hacking. ​

The second path

The second option, however, is much more intensive, rewarding, and mentally demanding. It is also much more fun if you find the right people to do it with. It involves learning everything from memory interaction with machine code to high-level networking – all while you’re trying to break into something. This is where Capture the Flag, or ‘CTF’ hacking comes into play, where you compete with other individuals/teams with the goal of exploiting a service for a string of text (the flag), which is then submitted for a set amount of points. It is essentially competitive hacking. This covers a large portion of knowing how to start hacking.

Through CTF you learn literally everything there is about the digital world, in a rather intense but exciting way. Almost all the creators/finders of major exploits have dabbled in CTF in some way/form, and almost all of them have helped solve real-world issues. However, it does take a lot of work though, as CTF becomes much more difficult as you progress through harder challenges.

Some require mathematics to break encryption, and others require you to think as no one has before. If you are able to do well in a CTF competition, there is no doubt that you should be able to find exploits and create tools for yourself with relative ease. The CTF community is filled with smart people who can’t give two shits about elitist mask-wearing twitter hackers, instead, they are genuine nerds that love screwing with machines. There’s too much to explain, so I will post a few links below where you can begin your journey.

Remember – this stuff is not easy if you don’t know much, so google everything, question everything, and sooner or later you’ll be down the rabbit hole far enough to be enjoying yourself. CTF is real life and online, you will meet people, make new friends, and potentially find your future.



Ethical Hacker jobs in 2019 (US)

Ethical Hacker jobs in 2019 (US)

Resources on hacking for beginners

Basically, the whole process of knowing how to start hacking is knowing what to learn and where. There are tons of resources on this particular subject, and we’ve listed the very best of them in this article. Here are the basic resources on hacking for early beginners.

  • What is CTF? (this channel is gold, use it) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ev9ZX9J45A
  • CTF compact guide – https://ctf101.org/
  • Upcoming CTF events online/IRL, live team scores – https://ctftime.org/
  • What is CTF? – https://ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/
  • Full list of all CTF challenge websites – http://captf.com/practice-ctf/

You have to be careful of the tool oriented offensivesec OSCP CTF’s, they teach you hardly anything compared to these ones and almost always require the use of Metasploit or some other program which does all the work for you.

Read also: What you need to become a hacker

The best resources on hacking for advanced beginners are:
  • http://pwnable.tw/ (a newer set of high-quality pwnable challenges)

  • http://pwnable.kr/ (one of the more popular recent wargamming sets of challenges)

  • https://picoctf.com/ (Designed for high school students while the event is usually new every year, it’s left online and has a great difficulty progression)



  • https://microcorruption.com/login (one of the best interfaces, a good difficulty curve and introduction to low-level reverse engineering, specifically on an MSP430)

  • http://ctflearn.com/ (a new CTF based learning platform with user-contributed challenges)

  • http://reversing.kr/

  • http://hax.tor.hu/

  • https://w3challs.com/

  • https://pwn0.com/

  • https://io.netgarage.org/

  • http://ringzer0team.com/

  • http://www.hellboundhackers.org/

  • http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/

  • http://counterhack.net/Counter_Hack/Challenges.html

  • http://www.hackthissite.org/

  • http://vulnhub.com/

  • http://ctf.komodosec.com

  • https://maxkersten.nl/binary-analysis-course/

  • https://pwnadventure.com



  • http://picoctf.com is very good if you are just touching the water.

We hope this article helps a bit on teaching you how to start hacking and wish you’ll be a good one:).

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