Get Internship Offers During Second Year of College in Cybersecurity -offensive domain

Abhishek Morla
1 min readFeb 13, 2025

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📚 First and Second Semesters: Build a Strong Foundation 📚

Learn Fundamentals on Your Own -> Focus on key topics like:

✅How SSL/TLS handshake works
✅OSI layers
✅Which TLS versions are considered insecure?
✅How DNS resolution works
✅TCP/IP three-way handshake
✅How operating systems work (Linux/Windows)
✅How web applications work (client-server model, protocols like HTTP, Web Application Architecture)
✅Encryption vs. Hashing

🌐 Next Steps: Specialize in Web Security 🌐 <Fundamentals>

✅Varios Cookie Flags (e.g., HttpOnly, Secure)
✅Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
✅Content Security Policy
✅Security Headers
✅Burp Suite

🧩 Third And Fourth Semester: Dive into Vulnerabilities and Hands-On Practice 🧩

Focus on OWASP Top 10 -> Must-to-Know Vulnerabilities:

✅CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
✅SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery)
✅Broken Access Control
✅SQL Injection (SQLi)
✅XSS Types (Reflected, Stored, DOM)
✅XXE Injection (XML External Entity)

Use Platforms for Hands-On Practice:

✅HackTheBox
✅TryHackMe
✅PortSwigger Labs

☑️Engage in Bug Bounty Programs -> Collect Some Hall of Fame (HoF) mentions -> Participate in ongoing CTFs

Build Your LinkedIn Presence -> Share Your Learning Journey:

✅Post regular updates on what you’re learning
✅Share your achievements to attract recruiters
✅Bugcrowd ranking, HackTheBox ranking, HoFs and CTFs

Comment Below if Anything is Missing 👇
It’s Time to Give Back to the Community.
Peace ✌️

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Abhishek Morla
Abhishek Morla

Written by Abhishek Morla

CyberSecurity Engineer @Honeywell | Ex- Securelayer7 | | Synack Red Team & Yogosha Member | DetectifyCrowdsource Member | Prohacker @HacktheBox|40+ Hall of fame

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