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100 days of pentesting


OK recently i just discovered this really cool concept of improving coding skill by committing with #100daysofcode.

The rules is very simple in the next 100 days you will:

  1. spend 1 hour or more to coding 
  2. tweet your progress daily by using #100daysofcode
  3. Each day, reach out to at least two people on Twitter who are also doing the challenge
overall this is very good for people in software development industry but why people from security field never consider starting to do #100daysofpentesting or similar ?(well, there is #100dayssecurity but after read and see it i think it's not really quite what i wanted)

So that my idea for this post, for the next 100 days i will do #100daysofpentesting challenge and here is the rule that i came out with:

  1. Pick two security books that you will use for pentesting guideline. Because i want to polish my skill in android pentesting i pick Android Hackers handbook and black hat python for helping me to create exploit. Well you can't pick any book you don't have to follow my references.
  2. Spend at least 2 hours experimenting exploit or tools that taught in the book.
  3. Create and upload your own exploit or tools inspire from the book (no matter how simple or easy is the code as long as you try to create it by yourself and able to explain it thoroughly that's good to go). I will post the exploit code in my Github account
  4. At the end of week(Sunday or Saturday) spend entire day to do bug hunting program. This will help you to implement the knowledge that you have been learned from the book and make sure to create a report of it. Don't get discouraged if you cannot find a single bug, the point is to learn and applying your knowledge in real world scenario. Please respect the ethic in hacking world if you find a potential bug you should report it to the developer.
  5. Last is you have to tweet it or post it in your social media about the progress that you have make. I will mostly update my progress in my blog and my other Instagram account.
These are the following that you can try but i cannot guarantee that the rule will apply to everyone. You may be want to change one or two things in the rules based on your condition.

What encourage me to create and take this challenge is that i feel for couple of months that i was in plateaus state and i don't see any significant improvement in hacking so it makes me really mad about myself for not giving my best shot.


So i hope by this post, a lot of people could be motivated to take up these challenge and improve their hacking skill.

Happy hacking everyone :D

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  1. Hijabi Girl26 April 2021 at 08:33

    I like your post. It is good to see you verbalize from the heart and clarity on this important subject can be easily observed... Pentesting Services

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