Skills to be learnt to become a hacker?

 Ethical Hacking Skills Required :

An ethical hacker must be proficient in networking databases, system handling, and operating systems. They also require soft skills required to communicate to the clients’ the problems in the organization’s security and suggest the most efficient upgrades. Apart from these, they must possess knowledge of:

• Network traffic sniffing
• SQL injection
• Orchestrate various network attacks
• DNS spoofing
• Exploiting buffer overflow vulnerabilities
• Password guessing and tracking
• Session hijacking and spoofing

An ethical hacker must have a creative mind because black hat hackers continuously look for opportunities to exploit a system in ingenious ways. They should be able to think like a black hat hacker and work with software testing teams to protect and prevent such security breaches.

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