There was a bunch of things I didn't understand when I first read it, so I took notes of mostly everything and started slowly by isolating topics, trying connect the dots as I was learning something new. Every once in awhile, I would go back to see if there were still things I didn't get it / or had missed, and there was always something. Eventually, the whole thing became a little more straightforward.
From there, it was just a matter of sharping my knowledge regarding more specific types of vulnerabilities and basically try them out into the wild. Worth mentioning, I have a background as a developer and although I had always been interested in cyber security, some concepts just escaped me. My programming skills however, made it easier to understand how to attack / defend applications. But this is just a small part of it.
Hacking is broader than that though, so it's not something that happens overnight. There are things I still have no idea how it works, but at least i know where to look. Also, not knowing a few things here and there doesn't make me necessarily worse than others h4ck3rs, as stupidity plays a huge whole in the cyber security realm as well and quite often, things are easier than you would expect (looking from the attacking standing point). Sitting on the defending side is quite hard though, as you have to covered everything as much as you can, while being an attacker, you just have to get lucky once.
There was a bunch of things I didn't understand when I first read it, so I took notes of mostly everything and started slowly by isolating topics, trying connect the dots as I was learning something new. Every once in awhile, I would go back to see if there were still things I didn't get it / or had missed, and there was always something. Eventually, the whole thing became a little more straightforward.
From there, it was just a matter of sharping my knowledge regarding more specific types of vulnerabilities and basically try them out into the wild. Worth mentioning, I have a background as a developer and although I had always been interested in cyber security, some concepts just escaped me. My programming skills however, made it easier to understand how to attack / defend applications. But this is just a small part of it.
Hacking is broader than that though, so it's not something that happens overnight. There are things I still have no idea how it works, but at least i know where to look. Also, not knowing a few things here and there doesn't make me necessarily worse than others h4ck3rs, as stupidity plays a huge whole in the cyber security realm as well and quite often, things are easier than you would expect (looking from the attacking standing point). Sitting on the defending side is quite hard though, as you have to covered everything as much as you can, while being an attacker, you just have to get lucky once.
hope this gives you some sort of direction.