I was going through some of videos from past defcons and I came across a listing of the things that every hacker should know as part of their education. The reality is that we all come from different backgrounds.

What is included below is a personal list and my progress through the list (I wanted some place that I would be albe to keep a list of things to work towards), your milage may very, void where prohibited:

Things to Know (at a basic level):

• Binary Math - Need More for Higher Math
• Hex - 5 / 5
• Tor - 4 / 5
• Shodan
• IDA Pro (and Vivisect)
• TCP/IP Fundamentals - 3 / 5, it’s been a long time since TSM
• ASM
• C/C++
• Basic Crypto - 2 / 5
• Wire Shark - 2 / 5
• How Lame Nessus Is - 5 / 5
• Metasploit - 1 / 5
• Virtualization - 5 / 5
• Backtrack - 2 / 5
• Command Line - 5 / 5
• SSH - 3 / 5
• Putty (windows) - 3 / 5
• FileZilla - 4 / 5
• OpenSource Tools
• How DNS Works (… and why it’s broken) - 5 / 5
• Digikey, Mouser, Janesco, McMaster (LadyAda)