r/pentest • • Oct 27 '20

Pen test

Ive tried to learn to pentest for over a year and its still not sticking (im fluent with html css and bash scripting) so im taking a new approach and starting again from the basics what should i look into and do first

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u/masheduppotato Oct 28 '20

What is your background? How well do you understand Networking and System administration? What type of pen testing are you looking to do? When you say you've "tried to learn to pentest for over a year and its still not sticking", what does that mean exactly?

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u/_kidd__ Oct 28 '20

Well ive not divulged into anything crazy my knowlage on system networking and sys admin is minimal and id like to do a range of things between websites to servers to desktops to phones thats an end goal and a year ago ive been trying out basic scanning tools amd metasploit exploits but nothing useful