Best "Hacking" Language?

[hotfoot982]

Hey,
I am really confused on which language I should learn.

Please post what you think I should learn for these two types of hacking:
- Web hacking (hacking sites)
- Virus making (making trojans, viruses, editing viruses, etc.)


Thank you very much,
- hotfoot982

[RNA]

Hey,
I am really confused on which language I should learn.

Please post what you think I should learn for these two types of hacking:
- Web hacking (hacking sites)
- Virus making (making trojans, viruses, editing viruses, etc.)


Thank you very much,
- hotfoot982

There isn't really a language for 'hacking' per say, the language is effectivly your tool.
For your web hacking thing, I would advise an understand of how the web programming works, so PHP would be a good start, if you know the flaws first hand, finding them is natural.

[hotfoot982]

Lol well, I just meant in peoples opinions.


- hotfoot982

[Lyecdevf]

I would go for C++ and Perl. It depends what you want to do with your programing skills. Hacking is a broad area. You could write viruses, worms, keylogers,...Some languages are better suited for certain tasks. Maybe if you had decided what exactlly you want to do we could advice you on that.

[ebrizzlez]

Check out my tutorial for virus building.

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http://www.suck-oold.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2604

Basically, for viruses you need to know API (Application Programming Interface) And for web hacking, you would need to know Cross Site Scripting, and I just mainly recommend learning Java, Html, PHP, and ASP. If you know how to mess with PHP then you can do web hacking, but you need knownledge of the others as well.

[pseudo_opcode]

I'll say C and assembly, the deadly combination, you cant do any shellcodes or exploits without assembly, if you're a hacker, then it has to be part of your invetory.
If you cant exploit buffer overflows, off-by-one, heap overflows, you dont deserve to call yourself a hacker.