Setup a Hacking lab
One of main problems I found when starting to hack was finding vulnerable targets to attack and hone your skills, these targets can be anything from virtual machines to repurposed hardware. You can then take these skills you have learnt and use them in the wild with a better understanding of what your actually doing and if you break any thing its no bother, you can just quickly restore from a snapshot or just re-format the box. So go dig…