Beginner’s Guide to Ethical Hacking with Open-Source Tools
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Summary
Ethical hacking involves legally breaking into systems to discover and fix vulnerabilities, and it’s becoming a vital component of cybersecurity.
This beginner’s guide explains how open-source tools can be used to pursue ethical hacking, allowing the user to become both proactive and experimental within the cybersecurity sector.
The first requirements for aspiring ethical hackers are to understand computer networks, programming languages and various operating systems, particularly Linux.
There are also certain tools that are crucial to the ethical hacking process, including Wireshark (a network protocol analyst), Metasploit (a penetration testing framework), Nmap (a security scanner), John the Ripper (a password cracker), and SQLmap (an SQL injection tool).
Following this, beginners must practice their newfound ethical hacking skills in virtual networks and on practice sites.