Having a Taste of Being a Hacker
0. Outline
The world of a true hacker is a very complex but at the same time very exciting. The materials on hacking is very big, to us first hand knowledge of networking and programming is quite necessary. It’s an unheard that you have to know about the system if you want hack successfully. Unfortunately we will not go that far as the topic of this section mentioned we only let you have a taste of being a hacker. It’s not expected you will be a hacker after you finish this topic, but we will like to give you the sensation of a hacker. It’ll be a nice starting point if you want to be a hacker.
There are more steps than just hijacking a system, the learning objective is to know what that other steps are. We will learn a few tools used in hacking, and finally let you have a taste of exploitation and creating a malware. Basically we will:
- Know the common 4 steps of hacking.
- Know some famous tools in hacking.
- Perform experiments on virtual lab.
There are some demonstration in this course, and for this be very careful since hacking or penetration testing without permission is against the law, even port scanning is considered a violation (be careful of other information gathering as well). Along the way is explained how you may conduct your experiment. Here we use an OS specifically for penetration testing for example Backtrack, Kali Linux, ArchAssault, and BackBox (it’s up to you of what to use, you just need the right tool)…
