Best Programming Languages For Hackers

For Web App Pentesting /Hacking
HTML

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the basics for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser. So if you don’t know HTML you should first learn it

JAVAScript

Learning java script. Will help you understand the basics of Cross Site Scripting

PHP/SQL

Majority of web applications are written using PHP and MySQL .So it is a must to learn PHP

For Writing / Understanding Exploits, Shell Codes, Root kits etc C & C++

More than 60 % of the exploits you will find on the web are written in C & C ++, Learning C & C++ will help you understand about Buffer overflows, Stack overflow etc, So learning C and C ++ is must for every hacker/Pen tester

Assembly

Learning assembly will help you in Writing/understanding Shell codes , Will Help you in Reverse Engineering applications and software’s

For Building Tools And Scripts

Python

Python is a very powerful high level language , Its Easy to learn and code, most of the tools and scripts for automation are written in Python . Knowing Python socket programming will help you a lot in Exploit writing

Ruby

Ruby is an another language which is used to write scripts, tools. Metasploit Frame Work is written in Ruby. so learning ruby will help you understand the in and outs of msf

Bash

Learning Bash is very Useful in writing small scripts for automation Hope this info helps you, If you have any doubts Regarding the article Please let me know them via comments.