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I wonder how do security professionals acquire their knowledge. Even more curiously, how do these malware writers do this? Programming can be easily learned by
by notastartup 12y ago
I wonder how do security professionals acquire their knowledge. Even more curiously, how do these malware writers do this?
Programming can be easily learned by reading and practicing but IT security, one doesn't know where to begin, what the journey is like.
- yetihehe 12y agoYou start here: http://thelegendofrandom.com/blog/archives/223 http://thelegendofrandom.com/blog/archives/223 or here http://www.reteam.org/ID-RIP/database/essays/es29.htm http://www.reteam.org/ID-RIP/database/essays/es29.htm and spend hundreds of hours on reading and using debuggers.
- notastartup 12y agoomg that is so cool!!! so this is how 'serial crackers' work.
- newaccountfool 12y agoCreating malware is simple, creating good malware that stays undetected is hard, very hard.
- gear54rus 12y agoSame here. It always eluded me. Security seems like a field where there is still no definite way to get good at. Being a good security researched requires (among many other things) ability to understand how things work. How ANY things work down to the LOWEST level. Idk about others but I always considered 'security guys' to be the elite of elites in IT world.
- notastartup 12y agoyeah i knew it boils down to some really low level knowledge but seems like a lot of black magic to me regardless on how people end up being able to publish papers or discover vulnerabilities...is it just educated trial and error ? poking at things that you think, hmmm maybe there's a hole here somewhere and then viola, you come across a CVE?