Hacker Roadmap: Hack Everything & Own the Web

Description

Dive into the beginner-to-advanced roadmap that turns curious learners into capable ethical hackers. Hacker Roadmap is a hands-on, career-focused guide that walks you through the essential skills, tools, labs, and real-world thinking you need to start and grow in cybersecurity. Written in a clear, friendly style, this guide blends fundamentals (networks, OS, programming) with practical reconnaissance, exploitation, post-exploitation, and defensive techniques — plus the exact learning path, resources, and labs pros use.

What’s inside

• Foundations & Mindset — Build a rock-solid base: computer basics, OS (Windows & Linux), programming, and how hackers think.
• Networking Essentials — IPs, subnetting, OSI/TCP-IP, DNS, proxies, VPNs, ports & protocols — everything you need for network recon and attacks.
• Recon & Scanning — Host discovery, Nmap mastery, Whois, passive & active intel, and email harvesting techniques.
• Exploitation & C2 — Mapping services to exploits, Metasploit, reverse shells, Netcat one-liners, privilege escalation (Windows & Linux) and post-exploit basics.
• Tools & Labs — Practical usage of Wireshark, tcpdump, Burp Suite, SQLMap, Searchsploit, GTFOBins and lab setup tips (VMs, Docker, WSL).
• Cloud & Containers — Intro to AWS/Azure/GCP security, container basics, and cloud attack surfaces.
• Defence & Detection — Endpoint/EDR basics, SIEM/SOC, WAFs, firewall strategies, and blue-team tactics you must know to defend systems.
• Careers & Learning Path — Recommended certs, courses, platforms (TryHackMe, HackTheBox, PortSwigger), and an actionable roadmap from beginner to pro.

Why this guide works

• Actionable — not theoretical: labs, cheat sheets, and tool workflows you can run in a safe lab.
• Career-focused: clear learning paths, certification suggestions, and real resources to build a portfolio.
• Balanced: covers both offense and defense so you learn how attacks happen and how to stop them.