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Skills Required to Become a Ethical Hacker

 

Skills Required to Become a Ethical Hacker


Aptitudes permit you to accomplish your ideal objectives inside the accessible time and assets. As a programmer, you should create aptitudes that will assist you with taking care of business. These aptitudes incorporate figuring out how to program, utilize the web, great at tackling issues, and exploiting existing security devices. 

In this article, we will acquaint you with the regular programming dialects and abilities that you should know as a programmer.



What is a programming language?

A programming language is a language that is used to develop computer programs. The programs developed can range from operating systems; data based applications through to networking solutions.  


Why should you learn how to program?

  • Hackers are the problem solver and tool builders, learning how to program will help you implement solutions to problems. It also differentiates you from script kiddies.
  • Writing programs as a hacker will help you to automate many tasks which would usually take lots of time to complete.
  • Writing programs can also help you identify and exploit programming errors in applications that you will be targeting.
  • You don’t have to reinvent the wheel all the time, and there are a number of open source programs that are readily usable. You can customize the already existing applications and add your methods to suit your needs.



What dialects would it be a good idea for me to learn? 


The response to this inquiry relies upon your objective PC frameworks and stages. Some programming dialects are utilized to produce for just explicit stages. For instance, Visual Essential Work of art (3, 4, 5, and 6.0) is utilized to compose applications that sudden spike in demand for Windows working framework. It would, subsequently, be strange for you to figure out how to program in Visual Fundamental 6.0 when your objective is hacking Linux based frameworks.


HTML     Web hacking

Login forms and other data entry methods on the web use HTML forms to get data. Been able to write and interpret HTML, makes it easy for you to identify and exploit weaknesses in the code

JavaScript       Web Hacking

JavaScript code is executed on the client browse. You can use it to read saved cookies and perform cross site scripting etc.


PHP         Web Hacking

PHP is one of the most used web programming languages. It is used to process HTML forms and performs other custom tasks. You could write a custom application in PHP that modifies settings on a web server and makes the server vulnerable to attacks.

SQL         Web Hacking

Using SQL injection, to by-pass web application login algorithms that are weak, delete data from the database, etc.
                              
PYTHON      
RUBY               
BASH       
PERL             Building tools & scripts

They come in handy when you need to develop automation      
tools and scripts. The knowledge gained can also be used in                              understand and customization the already available tools.


C & C++          Writing exploits, shell codes, etc.

They come in handy when you need to write your own shell codes, exploits, root kits or understanding and expanding on existing ones.  

 JAVA
 C sharp

Visual Basic
VBScript                       
Other use 

The usefulness of these languages depends on your scenario.
👉Java & C Sharp are *cross platform. Visual Basic is specific to Windows








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