Aditya Mehta

Depends on how they did it. Hiring for me is  ATTITUDE  more than anything. I have interviewed and hired quite a lot of people over the years (TAT was 180 people and Brisk is 10, and of course, there are a lot of people you end up not hiring). People can learn things, but they seldom change who they are.  I look for people who fulfill the following criteria (pretty much in prio order even if all are important): 1. I  want to work with  (pretty much the awful move The Internship's the layover test:    Vince Vaughn Googles Himself - Speakeasy - WSJ ) and of course the team wants to work with.  2.  Get shit done  (have a track record of doing things and the first weeks isn't afraid of getting hands dirty). I always ask people to show me  concrete  things they have done last three years.  3. Is  competent  - for example they could hack my webpage.  If possible I ask the person to hang with us, join us for lunches or a weekend, participate in a project, or something - just to see h

IP address TCP/IP utilities Malwares Keyloggers Phishing Cookie stealing or session hijacking Captcha Steganography Secure socket layers ssl Encryption Proxy servers Email, caller id, sms and mac spoofing DDos attacks Accessing blocked and restricted websites These are some of the basics you can start with. There are many more. Just google it or you can visit 

You need technical skills, and then you need to find mentors and coaches. I’ve collected here a set of resources on getting started. Check them out: gradiuscypher/infosec_getting_started So, you want to work in security? Entering The Infosec Biz Starting an InfoSec Career – The Megamix – Chapters 1-3 Blog >> Career Advice How to Break Into Security Also see our course material at  Cyber Security Base with F‑Secure First of all, good things take time. Don’t expect to become a Hollywood hacker in a week. You need to have patience and will to never give up. Start with basics of computer, we all operate this wonderful device but we hardly know how it works. Especially applications like browsers should be your area of interest, read a lot. “How browsers work, how they communicate and send data to the servers, HTTP headers, DNS” are few important points to cover. Learn one of the web scripting language like PHP, Django(Python) or Ruby along with HTML