The benefit of upskilling in different areas in your own time is that you set yourself apart when it comes to the job market, employers are typically looking for a few essential criteria, and almost everyone who gets to interview stage will have met that criteria. So how do you set yourself apart beyond that? By keeping yourself current, knowledgeable, skilled and passionate.

This is also true if you are looking into ethical hacking as a career switch, the more you can get across to a potential employer that you are a good learner, heavily invested in the topic and keen to be at the cutting edge, the more likely you are to rise above the other applicants.

The job market in the US, UK and Australia can be fiercely competitive, and not just in the economic hotspots like New York, London and Sydney, but also in towns and cities across the country, IT is needed everywhere.

So whether you’re looking for a job in Chelsea, London, or in Greater Manchester, such as Sale or Salford, you’ll need to show you’re up to the challenge. Below we have hand-picked competitive courses to help you advance your skills.

Complete Ethical Hacking Masterclass ($15)

This ethical hacking masterclass contains 65 lessons provided by HackerSpoilt. For $15 you will join the other 265 It enthusiasts enrolled on the course and get lifetime access to the content. This course covers everything from basic terminology to advanced exploitation and frameworks. When you’ve completed this comprehensive course, you will be to:

• Set up virtual penetration testing environments
• Know how to detect vulnerabilities in environments
• Understand advanced client-side and server-side exploitation
• Know how to attack both wired and wireless networks.

White Hat Hacker Training Bundle (Pay what you want)

We believe that everyone should have access to the leading education, which is why we’re including this pay what you want bundle. This course gets you access to 83 lessons, 10 hours of content and lifetime access. This course is designed to expand upon foundation knowledge of hacking, delving into a deeper layer where they will break down each attack into smaller components, so you understand the methodology behind the attacks.

The Computer Hacker Professional Certification Bundle ($49)

This course is a little more expensive at $49, but we believe it’s worth the money and boost to your skills. There are 64 lessons over 5 courses, and you’ll be joining a community of 331 people enrolled on the course. This course will help you get qualified as an ethical hacker. The course is comprehensive, covering attacks from the importance of social engineering, as well as more traditional web-based attacks.

Ethical Hacking for Beginners ($19)

This course is designed to be a starting point to your ethical hacking journey. The course will work its way through some common attacks, making sure you have a good understanding of the foundational concepts behind ethical hacking. What’s great about this course is that it isn’t all about reading and watching videos, there’s also an opportunity to get hands on experience testing the effectiveness of different defences.

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There is a famous Chinese general Sun Tzu saying about planning, attacking and winning several battles as “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

Why is footprinting important? A few reasons are outlined as below.

1. Understand Security Posture
2. Minimize Focus Area
3. Identify Vulnerabilities
4. Draw Network Diagram

The primary objectives of footprinting include gathering information about the target’s network and system, even the organization information.

The quickest reconnaissance is using a search engine to extract information about the target such as types of system, login pages, and employee details.

This method is known as passive footprinting in which an attacker never makes contact with the target system.

Discovery of target’s IP address

We are here to find out the IP address of the target system by means of using the PING utility. Let us pretend the hackwarenews.com as a target.

From the above experiment, the target domain’s IP address is 5.189.142.154. We also get other information on Ping Statistics, such as packets sent, packets received and approximate round-trip time.

Location of web server

We could also find out where the web server has been hosted. In order to do that, it does require to key in the target domain name in https://www.site24x7.com/find-website-location.html and https://check-host.net/ as shown below.

In order to get better and reliable information, we have to gather data from several sources. Based on the findings above, we will know that the target web’s server has been hosted in Munich, Germany.

Revealing of name server and mail address

There are numerous ways of finding the primary name server and responsible mail address as below.

Our target system would work with the primary name server called ns1.contabo.net and the mail system being hosted contabo.de

The above information is essential for an attacker. Last but not least, there are various tools and technologies to get and hack the whole system.

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There are many resources to get you started, like websites with free and paid online courses, books, e-books, tutorials, communities and of courses one of the biggest resources is Youtube.

Below is a list of Youtube channels that help you learn ethical hacking online.

#>_ Eli the Computer Guy

#>_ Penetration Testing Linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2QX0yGDzgw&list=PLTsHz_e2nqNnbo0QHjOUae2kfsLWOx6mw&index=10

#>_ Open Security Training

#>_ Ethical Hacking Tutorial by Joseph Delgadillo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg9cNFPQFqM

#>_ Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing (Kali Linux) Bhargav Tandel

#>_ Thenewboston

#>_ DedSec

https://youtu.be/mOiMU9fIEwk

#>_ Hack5

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Some of the skills that are needed to become a white hat hacker range from problem-solving, communication, IT security, ability to stay cool under pressure.

Background and Education Requirements
There are no common education foundations for an ethical hacker, however a master’s degree in information security, computer science or mathematics can prove to be a good foundation.

We have compiled a list of websites to learn Ethical Hacking in 2017:

• http://www.hacking-tutorial.com/
• http://www.hackinthebox.org/
• http://www.hackthissite.org/
• http://www.evilzone.org/
• http://hackaday.com/
• https://www.eccouncil.org/Certification/certified-ethical-hacker
• http://www.breakthesecurity.com/
• http://www.evilzone.org/
• http://www.hackingloops.com/
• http://www.metasploit.com/

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