My Cybersecurity Journey: From Getting Hacked to Hacking Back
My Cybersecurity Journey: From Getting Hacked to Hacking Back Everyone starts somewhere and for me, it all began with a really bad website. I was 14 when I built my first web page. It was broken, messy, and full of mistakes but it was mine. And that was enough. Something clicked. I kept building. My second site wasn’t great either, but it was better. Then came the third a simple login page and a working web app. That one made me proud. I felt like I was actually creating something. Then... I stopped. Back then, programming didn’t seem like a future. It felt like a phase fun, but uncertain. So I drifted away. But deep down, that itch to build, break, and understand how things worked never really left. Eventually, I came back. This time, it was different. I dove into full-stack development front-end was familiar, but I embraced the backend too, learning Python, Django, and the logic that makes web apps tick. I was building better, smarter systems. But I didn’t know my biggest...