HOW TO BECOME AN ETHICAL HACKER

Ethical Hacker is a person work with permission of the company or organization  to protect the network or application from hackers he help to increase the security . Security is ever evolving process . No network or computer is 100 percent secure.

To become an ethical hacker you required lot of skills in computer programming and networking , ethical hacker needs hands on security skills. Being an ethical hacker its your responsibility to perform penetration testing and check all the security or vulnerabilities in network or in application. Being an ethical hacker you should have the programming knowledge like C, C++, HTML., php. python, sql, although you must have the knowledge in networking like:-

1. Routing knowledge (Routing Protocols)
2.OSI Model , TCP/IP
3.ACL (Access control list)
4.Firewalls, IPS, (Intrusion Preventation system), IDS (Intrusion detection system)
5.Microsoft Server 2008 or 2010
6.Linux or (Backtrack open source)

                                                           KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

INFORMATION GATHERING  

 SOCIAL ENGINEERING ATTACK

PHISHING ATTACK

DNS POISONING (ADVANCED PHISHING) 

SNIFFERS

PHYSICAL ACCESS

SESSION HIJACKING (MAN IN THE MIDDLE ATTACK)

SQL INJECTION

XXS ATTACK

BRUTE FORCING ATTACK (PASSWORD GUESSING)

DOS ATTACK

DDOS ATTACK  

WINDOWS HACKING

LINUX HACKING

CRYPTOGRAPHY

WIRELESS HACKING TECHNIQUE (WEP OR WAP CRACK TOOLS)

TROJANS AND BACKDOORS

PROXY SERVER AND ETC...

Hacker is a very intelligent person who have very good knowledge in all above programming and networking or to become an ethical hacker you must have all the knowledge which i have mention above . We will learn all these thing one by one in our upcoming lecture or tutorials.