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Offline white_noise

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How do you practise hacking?
« on: March 11, 2015, 06:32:10 pm »
This is a serious question.
Do you guys actually do illegal stuff or do you practise on VMs and the like?
I don't know if questions like this are allowed so please don't move me to the BoS  :-\
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Re: How do you practise hacking?
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2015, 06:54:19 pm »
I have a feeling you are going to have a very bad time with questions like such. Anyway, I'm not a hacker myself i.e penetration testing, and all that isn't my business. But all that I would suggest you if you want to 'practice'  penetration testing is setting up a sandbox. An environment where nobody gets hurt. Say two or more computers on a LAN with different operating system, that is for penetration testing or whatever they call it.
For practicing your web hacking like Cross site scripting/ SQL injections, install an apache server(Wamp I would recommend). Write an insecure website on your own and try exploiting it, then when you successfully do it, secure it and try exploiting again, and so on. Later on you can practice your skills on other 'local' websites , like that of some state agents or school websites. It will be fun.
This is such an example site, of a  school where I had studied in the past.
bck.edu.pk
I had a friend help me with it( he was a skiddy but knew his tools well) and we uploaded a shell(that he said he had written which he clearly hadn't) and changed the Prinicipal's picture to Sasha Grey's. It was hysterical, and we did it when at the end of sessions when they were opening admissions and people were unintentionally DDosing their website for contact information.
Anyway, goodluck.
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Re: How do you practise hacking?
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2015, 08:10:15 pm »
You can "practice" within a virtual environment. Keep in mind hacking is to manipulate something other than what it's true design was for. You can just setup a Virtual environment lab where you can run a few Servers and provide many Services to start pen-testing or hacking your way into patched or vulnerable systems.
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Re: How do you practise hacking?
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2015, 06:03:27 am »
If you want real life hands-on practice, sign up for one of the bug hunting programs and start hacking actual web sites for fame and profit.

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Re: How do you practise hacking?
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2015, 11:40:20 am »
There are some pages who offer hackits or nearly real life vms with which you can practice
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Re: How do you practise hacking?
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2015, 09:06:51 pm »
I'm a student and have been studying security for the past year or so. What hat you wear is up to you, but keep in mind the repercussions if you are caught. It will do you good to set up a few virtual machines with older OS's and/or vulnerable web servers made by OWASP (I like the Broken Web Application Project) or the De-ICE live cd's. These will give you a good base to go off of. Bug bounty programs are great too, but a bit more challenging and I wouldn't recommend them until you have a firm grasp on your own environment.

Also, keep reading, especially about programming, I have been working on this for over a year and I'm still somewhat of a skiddie.

Good luck in your endeavours
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Re: How do you practise hacking?
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2015, 01:17:35 am »
Quote from: white_noise on March 11, 2015, 06:32:10 pm
This is a serious question.
Do you guys actually do illegal stuff or do you practise on VMs and the like?
I don't know if questions like this are allowed so please don't move me to the BoS  :-\

kali linux + metasploitable is best pc game for practiSe hacking
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Re: How do you practise hacking?
« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2015, 02:09:08 pm »
Quote from: PsychoRebellious on March 11, 2015, 06:54:19 pm
I have a feeling you are going to have a very bad time with questions like such. Anyway, I'm not a hacker myself i.e penetration testing, and all that isn't my business. But all that I would suggest you if you want to 'practice'  penetration testing is setting up a sandbox. An environment where nobody gets hurt. Say two or more computers on a LAN with different operating system, that is for penetration testing or whatever they call it.
For practicing your web hacking like Cross site scripting/ SQL injections, install an apache server(Wamp I would recommend). Write an insecure website on your own and try exploiting it, then when you successfully do it, secure it and try exploiting again, and so on. Later on you can practice your skills on other 'local' websites , like that of some state agents or school websites. It will be fun.
This is such an example site, of a  school where I had studied in the past.
bck.edu.pk
I had a friend help me with it( he was a skiddy but knew his tools well) and we uploaded a shell(that he said he had written which he clearly hadn't) and changed the Prinicipal's picture to Sasha Grey's. It was hysterical, and we did it when at the end of sessions when they were opening admissions and people were unintentionally DDosing their website for contact information.
Anyway, goodluck.


Very well said
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Re: How do you practise hacking?
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2015, 02:55:25 pm »
Quote from: PsychoRebellious on March 11, 2015, 06:54:19 pm
I have a feeling you are going to have a very bad time with questions like such. Anyway, I'm not a hacker myself i.e penetration testing, and all that isn't my business. But all that I would suggest you if you want to 'practice'  penetration testing is setting up a sandbox. An environment where nobody gets hurt. Say two or more computers on a LAN with different operating system, that is for penetration testing or whatever they call it.
For practicing your web hacking like Cross site scripting/ SQL injections, install an apache server(Wamp I would recommend). Write an insecure website on your own and try exploiting it, then when you successfully do it, secure it and try exploiting again, and so on. Later on you can practice your skills on other 'local' websites , like that of some state agents or school websites. It will be fun.
This is such an example site, of a  school where I had studied in the past.
bck.edu.pk
I had a friend help me with it( he was a skiddy but knew his tools well) and we uploaded a shell(that he said he had written which he clearly hadn't) and changed the Prinicipal's picture to Sasha Grey's. It was hysterical, and we did it when at the end of sessions when they were opening admissions and people were unintentionally DDosing their website for contact information.
Anyway, goodluck.

Great comment, I recommed the methods he wrote about.
In addition to that, you got sites like hackthissite and picoctf that tests your knowledge and teaches you :)
goodluck!
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Re: How do you practise hacking?
« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2015, 04:33:40 pm »
With the good help of GOOGLE you will find tons of places and ways to practice Hacking. Here is a few links to help you get started.


https://www.vulnhub.com/
http://p0wnlabs.com/
https://www.hackthissite.org/
http://securityoverride.org/news.php
https://hack.me/
https://www.hacking-lab.com/index.html
http://www.gh0st.net/
http://www.dvwa.co.uk/
And so on....


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Re: How do you practise hacking?
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2015, 09:18:04 am »
You'll first want to start practice by grabbing a hold of your wank and then letting the computer do the rest of the work. It will find it's own way around cyberspace
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