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The Hacker Ethos - Free Edition
A Beginner's Guide Book and Primer for Ethical Hacking

The full book is now available in paperback on Amazon.com

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This book will always remain FREE here

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This 100 page book encompasses all of the fundamental penetration testing and ethical hacking concepts, techniques, and tools for entry-level hackers. If you want to learn how to hack the right way, this is the place to start.

Introduction

Do you hunger for the knowledge and are awed by the power possessed by hackers? Do you want to harness your skills to become a network administrator, a programmer, or a Penetration Tester, but you don't know where to start? Start Here!

Herein, you will find a comprehensive, noob-friendly E-book designed to teach you the basics of hacking. Learn the mindset, the tools, the techniques, and the ETHOS of hackers. The e-book is written so that anyone can understand the material and grasp the fundamental techniques of hacking and penetration testing. It contains content tailored specifically for the beginner, pointing you in the right direction, to show you the path to becoming an elite and powerful hacker. You will gain access and instructions to tools used by industry professionals in the field of penetration testing and ethical hacking. You will learn how to do your own research and gain an intimate understanding of the terminology and techniques used by the best hackers in the world. And do you want to know the best part?

It's Free!

No catch, no gimick. Read my totally free E-book and free yourself from the chains of ignorance. Learn the pathway to becoming a hacker and to learn an invaluable skill that is part of the fastest evolving industry in the world.

What you're getting

• An Introduction to the Ethics of Hacking
  
• Understand the mindset and motivations of a hacker
  
• Gain access to an encyclopedia of FREE online learning resources
  
• Learn the advanced terminology of hackers
  
• Learn how to grow from a Newbie to an Expert
  
• How not to be a SKID!
  
• Learn the Methodology of Hacking
  
• Comprehensive tutorials on the techniques used by the best hackers
  
• Gather and learn how to use the best tools for the job
  
• How to profit from the skills you'll learn in this book!
  
• Learn powerful, focused research techniques.
  
• Learn the power of Google Hacking.
  
• Learn the importance of Security measures and Anonymity.
  
• Set up High-anonymous Proxies and hide yourself with VPNs.
  
• Learn the principles and methods of Doxing and Information Gathering on your target.
  
• Learn the basic usage of Kali-Linux.
  
• Tutorial on how to setup and use Metasploit.
  
• Receive a step-by-step tutorial to your First Hack!
  
• Find out what programming languages you need to know!
  
• Skills and Knowledge that will NEVER lose their value!
  
• Nearly 100 Pages of valuable content
  
• [NEW] Techniques involving Password Attacks, Social Engineering,
  
• [NEW] Set up your own Hacking Lab/Playground on as little as one computer!
  
• [NEW] Learn the essentials of Cryptography and Steganography.
  
• [NEW] An entire section on Wireless Cracking with Aircrack-ng.
  
• [NEW] A full chapter on the science and techniques behind Denial of Service attacks.
  
• And much, much more!
  

VOUCH AND SHARE!

I wrote and designed this E-book all on my own with the sole intent of sharing it with every newbie and leet, alike, who wanted to know more about hacking and to pick the brain of a professional with over 10 years of experience in the IT field. Please share this thread with the newbies and the curious. Spread the wealth, and share the knowledge. My only request is that, if you find this e-book helpful or agree with the knowledge it has to share, please vouch for its authenticity and value

Book Vouches

Conclusion:
This is one of the best beginner ethical hacking tutorials I've seen. I won't recommend it on my own accord as I despise ethical hacking, but if I were into it then this would be my to-go tutorial. You were spot-on with a lot of things.
9/10

I have honestly lost count of the amount of threads and supposed "Tutorials" offered about, some contain good pointers, or tips.

RARELY do I encounter a thread I find well worthy of notation however. Credit where its due, sure, but True has gone above and beyond for you new users.
Something I no longer have the patience for, a ring lead which has been passed on to himself, and with all hopes users who read this article and take what is said in to true consideration will eventually be passing and posting similar threads in the future.

My motivation for my activity, which is in general offered freely, is my own, I can only assume True has similar ambitions as myself. I see it in his postings.
Effort, professionalism, and above all, no drama, or personal BS in the articles.

I would be more than willing to send someone I cant handle myself this mans way, his postings and efforts overall have gained my confidence. I can only hope they do the same for others. 🤝

Although I have not read the whole ebook as of yet I want to say a huge thank you as i have skimmed through the content and it seems pretty good.
I have been looking for something like this for some time as I want to get started with pentesting and basic networking.

Thanks again!

Huge vouch for this book! very good informative material, It could always be a little more detailed but in the hacking world that's always the case is it not?
For me personally this book was a lot more about the psychology and logic of most of today's hackers. Although it will also give you all sorts of info to get you started and on your way to hacking gibsons in no time!

I am going to give this ebook a 9/10
My reasoning for this is I do feel a couple of the examples could have been explained a little bit more in depth, but I can also see why you wouldn't want to write a 1000000 page book! haha

Tremendous work True Demon.... I hope to read some more of your stuff in the near future!

I have lost count of all of the tremendous feedback and cannot fit any more vouches in this thread, but thank you so much for your support!


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I'd recommend this eBook. I took a look at it a long time ago, and it goes VERY in-depth.

Thank you for sharing this to HF community

We Appreciate that.

Warm Regards.

Wow man. Thank you SO much for this TUT. It helped me out in more ways than I thought it would. Very awesome job.

This is an epic eBook mate. 👍

I would recommend this to any beginner/intermediate hacker.

I started to read it and as a newbie its a lot of my questions have gone away after reading this thank you :)

Thanks,,,,, grate share..vouch for you bro

Thanks for posting mate! Some of this is useful.

Very HQ Post dude! Your are a legend and i hope i become a better person in hacking. +1

I really appreciate your fantastic work!
I will definitely have a read

Stayed up all night reading this. If you're motivated but have no place to get started, please, give this a shot. I feel 100x smarter in terms of hacking haha. Thanks a lot, man.

Good job Demon. The thread looks nice, and i'm sure the ebook will help plenty of people.

Nice e-book dude. Been interesting in getting into hacking for a while. Defiantly gonna rep the e-book with the signature.

Thanks OP, looks like something that could really help beginners, very in-depth.

Thanks for giving such a masterpiece to the community , i like the chapter about Skids tho xD , i didnt finish it yet but its amazing so far

This is a very nice ebook, covers a lot of information that tutorials don't!

Awesome e-book, i'm near the end and have been meaning to finish it up. At a price of $0 it's certainly a must read for people getting interested in hacking.

Very good ebook. Don't know why its free. It is to GOOD!

I want to thank you very much for this useful & informative thread and work of yours!

Really enjoyed the Read. I can tell you put a LOT of effort into this.

I will make sure to direct anyone looking for a tut to this 🤝

Donate to the Cause!

As I said, this e-book is totally free. However, I work a full-time job while also going to college full-time as well. As you can imagine, writing this book has required a significant investment of my time, and a LOT of work compiling research and my own personal knowledge and experience into these humble pages. If you would like to recognize and thank me for any help I've been to you, I will welcome and graciously accept any donations. Donators who give $25 or more will receive special recognition in my book as updates are released.

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>>Free Version is View-Only<<

Due to my agreement with Amazon Publishing, I cannot give away or offer downloads for my free e-book or they will revoke my book from their stock. Unfortunately, this means the E-book is View-Only. The freemium copy can be viewed from Google Drive 24/7, and the links will never break.

Please don't just leech and run.
This book is designed to help the community and your thanks, vouches, and posts help get the word out that there is a free e-book designed for the newbies in this field. Pleade share the thread link to anyone in need and spread this book.

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And check out some of my other work...
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True Demon's 'Universal Guide to Password Cracking'
True Demon's History of Hacking

Letter from the Author

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I have been a member of this forum since early 2011, and started my journey in my career of penetration testing and hacking back in 2002. After being a relatively silent reader and hear-and-there contributor of the forum, offering advice in the beginner's forum, I have decided that I wanted to create a more comprehensive and focused solution. I want to do my part to help new adopters of this profession and hobby find their way by offering up my first-ever E-book here for public viewing on HackForum. This community has given me a lot of assistance and has been a faithful resource for me since I joined it, and now I want to add to it.

This thread will be home to the first of hopefully many e-books that I intend to write. This E-book is an on-going project, and it will be receiving updates as I am able to work on it in my spare time. In the meanwhile, it will be offered up for free via google.drive and open source to the public. I encourage any and all feedback on this e-book to make it better and more helpful to the readers. Feedback from experienced members will be greatly appreciated.

As I write and release new books, they will be added here as well. Keep an eye out for new publications! Thanks again, HF! Here's to you and the staff!

Special Thanks and Donators!

• SsmithS - A special thanks for your generous and the FIRST donation!
  
• Th3PonyWizard - a special thanks for your comprehensive review
  
• Lord Forseti - an esteemed colleague in the info sec industry and a wealth of information.
  
• .Sinister - for his outstanding support for this publication
  
• Armada
  

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The last time I posted this thread in your free e-book section, it was removed without warning, notice, or reason. I was never told why it was closed, but I do not know of any rules that I broke. Please, if there is something wrong with this thread, PM me first and I will happily correct it.

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[Black Scorpion]

Could I get a copy of this?

[Rokushi]

Could I get a copy of this?

Did you even read the post? Or just saw "FREE" or "E-BOOK" and jizzed?

Download Link!

Unfortunately, due to the lack of a copyright and to protect my book from plagiarism and fraud, this E-book is View-Only at this time. It can be viewed from Google Drive 24/7, and the links will never break. A new link will be posted for each version, so check back every so often for new links! If you are an Ub3r or highly trusted member and would like to receive a copy for reviews and/or sharing, please PM me directly.

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[Th3PonyWizard]

Penetration Tester – Seeks out vulnerabilities in networks and computer software. (Averages $50-70,000/Salary)

Security Auditing – Same as a penetration tester, but from INSIDE a network. (Averages $45-60,000/Salary)

Network Administration – Manages and maintains a network and servers. (Averages $30-55,000/Salary)

Computer Forensics – Investigates computer fraud/intrusions to find the culprits (Averages $50-75,000/Salary)

Application Development – Creates and updates useful software for consumer use ($40-80,000/Salary)

Web Development – Creates and manages websites for client companies ($40-70,000/Salary)

This is rather blunt. Salaries are something fluid, always changing within the market and demand of certain areas. For example in Israel there's little market for Penetration Testing and Security Auditing yet rather big one for sysadmins. And salaries are much lower. Hacking is an IT-categorized field. Information Technology will always get paid lower than Computer Science - Actual programming, development and research. The only way to get paid more is to worth more - as in, be better, be exceptional, get deals from big companies. Or simply be associated within the CS market by programming alongside hacking.

(A) THE OSI MODEL

OOOOLD. Highly recommending to anyone to mentally switch the 6'th and 5'th layer with the 7'th layer (7 = 7 + 6 + 5) and then call it TCP/IP model. the OSI model is being abandoned worldwide university by university with each passing day.

(D) PROGRAM LOGIC

I don't like this rating of which programming languages are easier. Easiness is relative.

It is easy to understand, and highly vulnerable.

SQL isn't vulnerable. The way people use it is.

{INTERMEDIATE to HARD} C, C++, and C# - C, C plus plus, and C Sharp are the family of languages

that are known as C-programming. Largely considered to be the most comprehensive and powerful

In all fairness C# shouldn't be standing next to C and C++. They're on different levels. C# is a shitty microsoft attempt at making a .NET language that C++ programmers will move to due syntax.

those developers who work with the C languages are the ones

who make big money.

C isn’t really used anymore,

Skill makes money, not language choice. Not seeing a market where C programming is liek-de-best and gives you the most $$$$. If that was the case I'd stick with C and wouldn't be learning Python and C++ as well. Truthfully C is slowing down compare to newer technologies and a C-only programmer will even struggle to get a job at certain areas of this industry. Of course it's a valued language: It's the backbone of anything-computer related. Most modern languages today were written with C. It is needed, but scoring into their development areas isn't easy. Anyway it's still being used.

In this section, we will give a high level overview of how the whole system works as pictured in Figure 1. Further sections will discuss the applications and data structures not mentioned in this section. Most of Google is implemented in C or C++ for efficiency and can run in either Solaris or Linux.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

16GB of RAM

But you'll handle yourself just with 8. And with a little effort, 4 too. Virtual Machines aren't that necessary, you can simply boot things up normally.

Conclusion:
This is one of the best beginner ethical hacking tutorials I've seen. I won't recommend it on my own accord as I despise ethical hacking, but if I were into it then this would be my to-go tutorial. You were spot-on with a lot of things.
9/10

[behacker8055]

Thanks a lot !!! Its very helpful for me as a beginner and for all
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[N1l0c]

Thanks for this, Deamon!

Greetings 🤝

[Learner Boy]

Thanks a ton for this.
Will check this out now

[05317832892]

Wow, looks nice. Thanks for giving back to the community!

[Nomad.Null]

Conclusion:
This is one of the best beginner ethical hacking tutorials I've seen. I won't recommend it on my own accord as I despise ethical hacking, but if I were into it then this would be my to-go tutorial. You were spot-on with a lot of things.
9/10

Thank you very much for the comprehensive review, Pony. I grant you, I am not a programmer by trade. I dabble in a few languages, and know enough to write my own scripts and make adjustments to existing exploits, but by no means am I an experienced developer. As such, I value your opinion in this regard. If you were willing to share your knowledge and experience in the programming side, I would happily add it to the e-book and give it its own chapter, with all credit, naturally, being given to you.

While we certainly don't share the same thoughts on ethical hacking, you are a vastly more skilled programmer than I am. I am trying to give newbies the broadest experience and show them as many avenues to success as possible. I get the feeling that this is your goal as well. That being said, I would be very grateful for your input if you'd be willing to share your thoughts on how newbies looking to become programmers, exploit developers, etc could begin their educational journey.

Regardless, I will take your review into consideration and make adjustments accordingly.

With regard to the salaries section, they are all based on United States averages as of 2013. I can only assure the accuracy of my own nation's averages.

I agree, the C languages are vastly different, but I am not nearly skilled enough to make a confident recommendation or tutorial about any of them.

Agreed, SQL is indeed made vulnerable by the people that use it incorrectly, just like any program or service. But because of how easy it is to leave errors behind in the query syntax, it is easiest to compromise its security, which is why I worded it that way.

I disagree that the OSI model is outdated. It may be old, but all network traffic still must obey the laws and paths that it outlines. The TCP/IP model is just a more condensed version of the OSI model, but in the end, the OSI model still holds true. I will make a point to include it in the next update; however, all encryption and likewise processes still happen at Presentation - Layer 6 exclusively, which is something that deserves to be noted if someone wants to get into Cryptography. Long and short, I think the universities are just trying to make it easier for their students to pass the tests rather than showing them the bigger picture. 🤝

[RonTheHedgehog]

Very good post man!:) Thank u very much for sharing :):D:))

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Thank you for sharing this ti HF community

We Appreciate that.

Warm Regards.

[EmailMarketer]

Lovely tutorial thanks a lot to sharing it

[Nomad.Null]

Thank you for sharing this ti HF community

We Appreciate that.

Warm Regards.

My pleasure. Reviews, vouches, and especially shares are always appreciated. The ebook is still growing, so any feedback, especially from the Ub3rs, will be greatly considered.

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New update is nearing release.

Topics and content being added:

Password Cracking
Wi-fi hacking
Remote Administration Tools
E-mail Spoofing
Man in the Middle Attacks

Most of these techniques being added are to get the skid methods out of the way and also outlining the importance of password security. Sometimes the skid methods are all that is needed to compromise a target, and therefore, an easy way to successfully resolve a penetration test. Although these methods are beyond easy, they are also the basics and need to be understood in order to facilitate good, thorough pentests.

Look for the next update to be released this week. :)

[SiNdicate]

Wow man. Thank you SO much for this TUT. It helped me out in more ways than I thought it would. Very awesome job.

[Nomad.Null]

Wow man. Thank you SO much for this TUT. It helped me out in more ways than I thought it would. Very awesome job.

You are very welcome.

Unfortunately, the update has been delayed by unforseen circumstances. A BSoD error has brought my entire week to a screeching halt. I am working to resolve it, but the book will undoubtedly be delayed for the forseeable future.