I've been learning hacking for a while now and I wonder when did some fo you guys reached a point where you could consider yourself good enough or where at least you could land a security job.

been training like 3 months and I can only do some vary basic hacking and only on linux machines. I know this is long term but it gets a little frustrating

(August 12, 2022, 10:44 AM)user5dd3484 Wrote: I've been learning hacking for a while now and I wonder when did some fo you guys reached a point where you could consider yourself good enough or where at least you could land a security job.

been training like 3 months and I can only do some vary basic hacking and only on linux machines. I know this is long term but it gets a little frustrating

Hmm, I will suggest try to actual bug testing for test your skills, pentestion is nothing but taking advantage of poor written code, you need to understand how it is written and know about the mindset about it. I know the feeling that you keep trying but it takes time but the best way is to have patience and continue. Your motivation for doing it will tell more

P.S SINCE, SOME NON RELIABLE PISSED DUDES MIGHT STILL, WILL "EXAGGERATE", I MADE IT MORE CLEAR.

(August 12, 2022, 11:49 AM)Mysterious Wrote:

(August 12, 2022, 10:44 AM)user5dd3484 Wrote: I've been learning hacking for a while now and I wonder when did some fo you guys reached a point where you could consider yourself good enough or where at least you could land a security job.

been training like 3 months and I can only do some vary basic hacking and only on linux machines. I know this is long term but it gets a little frustrating

Hmm, I will suggest try to actual bug testing for test your skills, pentestion is nothing but taking advantage of poor written code, you need to understand how it is written and know about the mindset about it. I know the feeling that you keep trying but it takes time but the best way is to have  patience and continue. Your motivation for doing it will tell more

bad advice

(August 13, 2022, 07:16 AM)AndrewTate1 Wrote:

(August 12, 2022, 11:49 AM)Mysterious Wrote:

(August 12, 2022, 10:44 AM)user5dd3484 Wrote: I've been learning hacking for a while now and I wonder when did some fo you guys reached a point where you could consider yourself good enough or where at least you could land a security job.

been training like 3 months and I can only do some vary basic hacking and only on linux machines. I know this is long term but it gets a little frustrating

Hmm, I will suggest try to actual bug testing for test your skills, pentestion is nothing but taking advantage of poor written code, you need to understand how it is written and know about the mindset about it. I know the feeling that you keep trying but it takes time but the best way is to have  patience and continue. Your motivation for doing it will tell more

bad advice

Please provide alternative advice, if you know what is wrong and mentioned what is wrong, do not criticize if you can not say valid thing.You have only 12 posts since march, none of them are helpful.

You do not have patience.

First admitting being a skiddy is a good thing, it's normal given your experience

You can never be an expert in everything, first try to know at least the basics in various categories related to the profession (osint, administration, development, SE, ...) and deepen the areas in which you are comfortable

Then, draws knowledge from RSS feeds, forums (s/o breached), challenges, in order to "hone" them

When you have the feeling to understand what you do, and why you do it, I think you can start applying, in general you will be trained and being a beginner they will not expect unachievable things from you (if so, change company)

I think you'll remain a skiddy until you develop your own tools that answer a specific problem, instead of overusing third-party resources (that doesn't mean developing a homemade nmap, let's face it)

Good luck

Im not hacker yet ?

Security jobs are so varied and different experience is needed for different positions and roles. 

Even if you want a job securing networks and systems its still good to learn hacking to understand how to defend better. 

Getting to know the tools that a a job or company uses obviously helps.  If you want to do pentesting then practising with Metasploit, CobaltStrike and AV evasion techniques is probably a good idea but you need to know your basic nmaps, mimikatz and other similar type tools well too and where and when to use tools.

A hacker can get by being a script kiddy but the better ones learn programming languages to write their own tools and to understand how code can be exploited.  

There is no magic answer, you have to follow the path and make decisions along the way

You'll get there eventually. Just keep practising.

no one is good, you keep getting better. don't count days and expect yourself to be hacker

Depends how good of a learner ur..