Hey Everyone i hope you all are doing great. Nowadays, every other college or school student wants to be a hacker. Due to media hype, the term hacker is considered both cool and criminal at the same time. Now, since This Note is basically about my journey into hacking, I receive many emails on how to become a hacker. “I’m a beginner in hacking, how should I start?” or “I want to be able to hack my friend’s Facebook account” are some of the more frequent queries. In this article I will attempt to answer these and more. I will give detailed technical instructions on how to get started as a beginner and how to evolve as you gain more knowledge and expertise in the domain. Hacking is a skill. And you must remember that if you want to learn hacking solely for the fun of hacking into your friend’s Facebook account or email, things will not work out for you. You should decide to learn hacking because of your fascination for technology and your desire to be an expert in computer systems.

Introduction!

Where It All Began!?

1. Using site:.in index.php?id=1 ‘
2. Going to a Mirror Website Like Zone-h and take a Website from their and Scanning it finding the existing shell or Finding the Vulnerability in it and Exploit it

After some days, I Successfully hacked 20-30 website and Defaced them But I was not having Fun in it so I again started google and After some time I learned to find vulnerable sites from some advanced Google Dorks & Then Exploiting them By Tools like Sqlmap, & I also learned a Little about Manual SQL inj, Shelling Compromising Cpanels etc  And After that i get to know about symlink, server jumping, a little about rooting etc… and at first it was all fun & learning but not profitable so i changed my HAT.

I’ve had my good share of Hats. Black, white or sometimes a blackish shade of grey. The darker it gets, the more fun you have. – MakMan

If you’re not familiar with the concept of Hats in hacking, you’re probably at the wrong place!

One day i saw that some White Hat Hackers Mainly Shawar Khan, Behroz etc were Getting Swag Packs & rewards From Companies & Earning some Good Reputation and All i was doing is Defacing Websites & Posting About them on My Facebook , So I Contacted Both of them they Helped me through Guiding me What actually they were Doing and What are the benefits
They also Refer me Some Links to Read about White Hat Hacking… I first followed the basic guideline and Reported 2-3 Bugs In Website ( even when I don’t Know what The Bug can do and what problem is causing the issue ) First i got rewarded a T-Shirt and Then some Amazon Gift Cards 20$, 40$ etc The More I try the More I learned and Started to understand the Problems……..

and the Reward was!

So! Basically Without Knowing what actually happening at the end and just basic reading, i got My First Reward that was way more than expected.

After That I become addicted To Bug Bounty Hunting & I started to Hunt More and More for Bugs, The first bug i understand was Cross Site Scripting(XSS) and After reading Some More Articles & Books, I learned Quite Few Bugs Like ( XSS, CSRF,SQLi,LFI,RCE,SSRF,Open redirect, DLL hijacking, Clickjacking etc)

after learning Process…. I started to Look for XSS issue and Found One in #Bugcrowd itself

Resources to Learn 

I Have written a basic Guide for People who are interested to learn you can follow up to that here.

Guide 00X |Getting Started in Bug Bounty Hunting..

You can Contact me via Twitter DM, or my Email at muhammadkhizerjaved@gmail.com if you have any questions after reading the Article Above

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