What are the basics for hacking?

Question

Burglary protection

Being engaged in the backend, one question began to torment me, but how the server and everything connected with it works inside.
What I'm leading to: I want to learn how to raise servers, learn how to maintain them, configure them (access rights, etc.), learn how to write protection for them and hack them.
What is worth seeing, what books to read?
Do not judge if it was not expressed correctly, because while working and making small programs in PHP, this thought came to me just now. XD
PS OC Linux Mint installed yesterday (if there are good manuals for it for noobs, then please tell me)
It would probably be right to ask the question: what layer of skills does a novice hacker need ^-^

Answer 1

what a novice hacker needs to know

Answer 2

Forums and only forums: anti-chat, exploit and others. Read articles and try. It doesn't work - ask questions on the forums.
You need to understand how things like:
As you learn to find and promote the above-mentioned, as the most popular, types of attacks, you can say that you know something. In the process, get acquainted with a bunch of other types of vulnerabilities, their diversity.

Answer 3

You need to go towards pentesting
Start with Metasploit

Answer 4

Hello!) I recommend that you start studying pentest with this article, I hope it will help you become an information security specialist)
Pentest for lamer part 1