Getting started with Pentesting!

Hey Guys and Girls,

since I am interested in Pentesting I wanted to share some sources with you with great Tutorials.

As pentesting is a big field you probably wonder where to get started. So let's start with the programming languages. If you have never programmed before I would advise you to start with C because learning the basics of C gives you a good understanding of how a computer works since you have to do things like allocate memory to the heap for example which you don't have to do in other languages. The concepts of variables, functions, arrays and so on will give you a good foundation in programming because these concepts a used in almost every popular programming language you'll come across.
As a starting point you can checkout this Tutorial by thenewboston which is very nice:

Other programming languages you might want to learn over time are Python, C++, PHP or Javascript.

Let's checkout some other resources for learning pentesting:

https://cybrary.it A site with many useful tutorials and short introductions

http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/ Another site concerned with tutorials and articles revolving around the topic of infosec

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/ A very good newsblog

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2U9Dq9NckqHMbcUupgF0A/videos The youtube channel of Black Hills Information Security with very good webcasts

And there are always sites like https://www.coursera.org/ and https://www.edx.org/ which have university courses for free with topics like programming and cybersecurity.

So that's it for today

See you soon

toalsty