I am a computer science student and want to know how I became an ethical hacker ?
I know many concepts of networking, and web technology.
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I am a computer science student and want to know how I became an ethical hacker ?
I know many concepts of networking, and web technology.
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Hacking is often nothing but exploiting the systems flaws. Take some computer security related subjects, you'll learn more on that there.
It does require a great expertise and knowledge in areas like coding, network protocols and operating systems. Even learning history of previous hacking techniques is useful.
Yeah most of the hackers find flaws in the system but with the time the encryption algorithms are improved and still improving I think that makes this field hard 😕
It's not that encryption got better, we still use AES for symmetric encryption that came out almost 30 years ago, and RSA/ed for asymmetric one that's also roughly as old. None were really broken or directly hacked by trying out all possible combinations (which is basically impossible, as there are too many combinations to check).
The issue is more in the software bugs and programmers doing mistakes, that's where the exploits come from. Sometimes it's also the users fault too, don't install crappy viruses/programs and such.
The crap you sometimes see on the media that someone "broke" the encryption are always baits, encryption there was never broken directly, but indirectly.
So you are saying even the old algorithms are almost impossible to hack even if it's a synchronize or synchronize
So you find a bug due to an user/developer mistake.
That's a really nice piece of information I was thinking the hackers would try to crack the encryption algorithms
Depends on how old the algorithm is. There are some (very old) encryption or cryptographic algorithms that are considered broken right now. But most of modern ones are often 20-30 years old at this point.