KVN1:
Good evening everyone. I just left school yet I still feel so inadequate because of a lack of skill. I really wish to become a penetration tester, but I don't even have an idea on how to go about it. I don't have any background in programming so please I need the advice of everyone who can help, even with companies where I can learn it.

chukzyfcbb:
First of, you canot break into a system you don't even understand how its built.

To break into a bank, you must understand how the bank operates, so likewise to penetrate computing system you must understand how the systems work.

- Learn Computer Networking and how the TcP/IP works, how packets gets routed.

- Learn the Windows OS, Active directory and how it works

- Move to Linux, master the Linux shell

- Move to Basic scripting (bash/python) you don't actually need this to start tho. Infact you can make excellent money without knowing how to script but to hit elite status you need to know one.

- Once you have mastered those. Get a Kali Linux OX, visit Udemy and search for the cyber mentor by heath Adams. He is the most recommended and the easiest teacher to follow.

Follow his course like a disciple following Jesus. Pratice pratice pratice....

In 6months you would start doing dangerous things.

In all you do, remember to play legal, otherwise your fellow security boiz and girls will nab you and hand you over to EFCC


Goodluck!!!

Pacesetter123:
Which comment will you learn from?
The ones made by weird nairalanders in this thread?
Except you will love to learn from their weird comments about the other type of penetration they have already turned write-up into.

KVN1:
Good evening everyone. I just left school yet I still feel so inadequate because of a lack of skill. I really wish to become a penetration tester, but I don't even have an idea on how to go about it. I don't have any background in programming so please I need the advice of everyone who can help, even with companies where I can learn it.

kambili999:
I understand that a lot of weird people drop comments here. But there are very wonderful people here to. So I won't completely rule them out. I sieve the weirdos and take the good ones. Thanks tho

Alicia1:
it sucks reading gabbages on front page, at least if you don't know how its done can't you know what it is ? can believe Our youths are still Dumbfvk in this tech edge, that's how some are discouraging me to go into tech as a female. smh

nairatony:


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Kennyking1234:
hi

Alicia1:
hey!

Kennyking1234:

do you code? would like to know you...

Tomahawk99:
The best way to go about it is to learn the basics.
Mind you, you will not become a penetration tester in a year. You need lots of practice.
Learn basics like TCP/IP protocol (Important), Linux OS, subscribe to some YouTube channels for good tutorials, textbooks. You can also join study forums like HackTheBox where you get to learn the practicals.
Pentester academy is also another good place to study to become a penetration tester.
I started my journey of becoming a penetration tester in 2016. HackTheBox, YouTube, Cybrary, Pentester academy, books like The Hacker playbook 1&2, Penetration testing: Introduction to hacking by Georgia Weidman, Red Team Field manual, Linux for hackers and resources/links & free mentorship on Twitter.
For certs you can start with CompTIA Security+ or the new Penetration testing course introduced by CompTIA. I took the certified ethical hacker (CEH) version 10 certification course and now am preparing to take the Offensive Security OSCP course which is highly regarded in the infosec industry.

EvilSec:
First, find people of your same level to hang around with, that can explain things in your own terms (experts explaining things over your head really sucks).

Second, get a Raspberry Pi. Start "sysadmining" the Raspberry Pi. Find fun projects. At some point, start playing around with networking on it. Explore all the fun command-line tools, like 'traceroute'. Use 'openwrt' as your home router and "netadmin" that heck out of that. Now install web services on your RPi and play around with that, watching how your web server can serve raw HTML containing CSS and JavaScript. Create your own website. Now buy a domain name and push out to an AWS server. Make a LAMP app that serves stuff from an SQL database.

Now hack your server with SQL injection. Keep playing with bad server-side scripts until you get good at SQL injection.

Play with Chrome "Developer Tools" to explore how websites construct their web pages.

Now it's time for JavaScript. Spend some time learning abstract programming language theory with JavaScript as well as practical fun with it both inside the browser ("Developer Tools" again) and on the command-line ("NodeJS".

My best learning came not from mentors, but from people my own level. They, too, can suck, I still bitterly resent that 15 year explaining 'arrays' to me in a totally messed up manner when I was 14. But it's through talking about such things that we acquire knowledge.

Finehotbro:
How much na Pi? I wan run Kali on top that thing,

Kennyking1234:
hi

etimism1981:
That is under Cyber security and Ethical Hacking. Can mail me and give you thorough training on That. Mail: ottongubong@gmail.com.