GETTING-STARTED.md

Getting Started

General topics and info about hacking.

Operating Systams and Virtual Machines

• Operating System (OS)
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows
  • Linux
    • Distributions
      • Ubuntu
        • Debian
      • Pop OS
      • Linux Mint
      • Red Hat Linux
      • Fedora
      • CentOS
      • Rocky
      • Arch
      • Suse
      • SlackWare
      • Knopix
      • Gentoo
      • Free BSD
      • Tails
      • Android
      • Pen Testing OS
        • Pre-installed with pen testing software
        • Kali Linux
        • Parrot OS
• Hyper Visor
  • An app that runs on the host machine
  • Virtualizes / Emulates Hardware for guest OS
  • Arm M1 Mac
    • UTM
  • Virtualbox
  • Hyper V
  • Vmware Player
  • qemu

Containers

Virtual Machines

Private vs Public Networks

Types of Hacking

• Penetration Testing (Pen Testing)
  • Red Team
    • Offensive Security
  • Blue Team
    • Defensive Security
  • White Hat Hacker
    • Hacking "professionally"
    • Legally employed to hack
  • Black Hat Hacker
    • Malicious intentions
  • Gray Hat Hacker
  • Network / Computer
    • Scanning / Analyzing / Assessing a computer system
      • In order to identify
        • vulnerabilities
          • old versions of software
            • unpatched
        • mis configurations
  • Physical
    • Test gates / locks
      • Lock Picking
    • Social engineering
      • Tailgating
• Bug Bounties
  • Companies will pay hackers that find vulnerabilities
• Responsible Disclosure
  • Disclose found vulnerabilities to companies before publishing
  • Give companies time to fix / patch before publishing
• CVE
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
    • Known / documented / reported vulnerabilities
• Zero Day Exploit
  • Unknown vulnerabilities
• Application Security
  • AppSec