QRQrius·Jun 4, 2017Submission
Ask HN: What's the prerequisite to become an exploit developer?
I want to learn reverse engineering (RE) and exploit development.
There are great resources for both of them (like MBE http://security.cs.rpi.edu/courses/binexp-spring2015/ and RE https://github.com/fdivrp/awesome-reversing).
The only problem is that there is hardly any article which actual lays out a path for a complete beginner.
I want to understand what are the ACTUALLY NECESSARY topics required and in RIGHT ORDER to MINIMIZE the TIME WASTING and wandering in between topics so that the knowledge aqcuired is more practical in context of current vulnerabilities rather than being more theoretical.
Something like programming fundamentals>python>C>Assembly>Computer Organization>Windows Internals>Reversing>Fuzzing etc. (its only an example, please teach me the correct order)
Actually there's an article http://www.myne-us.com/2010/08/from-0x
Read the rest
90-to-0x4c454554-journey-into.html but it is quite outdated.
Your opinions along with updated resource links and views on them will be greatly appreciated. Please, only focus only on topics that are actually necessary because RE and Exploit development are vast topics in themselve (for eg: Do I actually need to learn computer architecture or organization? AFAIK those circuits and architecture specific thing is more helpful for a electrical or electronics engineer rathen a RE. We need to learn the intricacies of a particular architecture like x86 or ARM but in my opinion those circuits won't help any RE in his daily reversing schedule, so please foucs on the only required part like one I know: OS fundamentals.