Complete Ethical Hacking Bootcamp

Aswin Barath

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TechSoftware

6 min readAug 27, 2022

Become a security expert and get hired

Learn everything you need to know from the most comprehensive and up-to-date Ethical Hacking course that you can find.

Are you someone who is interested in learning Ethical Hacking from scratch? Are you a python developer who feels lost and don’t know what to do next? Well, you are in the right place.

🚨 Spoiler Alert: This is a course preview 🚨

First of all, let me answer a common question: Should I learn ethical hacking?

Is it worth it?

If these stats don’t convince you, I don’t know what will:
There is a hacker attack every 39 seconds
64% of companies have experienced web-based attacks
Since COVID-19, the US FBI reported a 300% increase in reported cybercrimes
~$10.5 trillion is expected to be spent globally on cybersecurity by 2025
Unfilled cybersecurity jobs worldwide grew 350% to ~3.5 million from 2013 to 2021. Way more jobs are becoming available than there are people with the skills to fill them.

Now that you are convinced, let’s explore more about the course.

What will you learn?

👇 Complete Course Breakdown 👇

HACKING LAB

You will build your own hacking lab which is a virtual machine that we will use for hacking (Kali Linux)

OPTIONAL: PYTHON 101

Learn Python 3 programming from scratch.
This section covers Python Basics, Error Handling, File I/O and so much more +

RECONNAISSANCE

You will learn Footprinting (aka Information Gathering)

SCANNING

In this section, you will gather only technical information such as:
if they have open ports, if they have a firewall,
what software they are running on those open ports,
what operating system they have,
is it an outdated operating system, etc.

VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS

You will learn to determine whether there are any known vulnerabilities.

EXPLOITATION & GAINING ACCESS

This is where we attack and gain access to the target machines.
You will learn about many different vulnerabilities and different targets.
Perform these attacks on your virtual machines and cover another really important tool for an ethical hacker: Metasploit Framework.
You will also learn to create our own Viruses and Trojans that we can deliver to the target whether through an email or through a USB.

POST EXPLOITATION

Post-exploitation is what you do on the target machine after we have exploited it. So you have to make sure that you cover the tracks by deleting any event logs or deleting any evidence that you were ever on that machine.

WEBSITE PENETRATION TESTING

In this section, you will mainly target websites and their bugs/vulnerabilities such as:
SQL Injections (us interacting with the database),
Information Disclosures (having access to some information by mistake which shouldn’t be out there),
Command Injection (directly interacting with the system through the webpage),
XSS (Cross-Site Scripting Attack and Injecting Javascript code on the page).

MAN IN THE MIDDLE

This is an attack that is used inside a network. This allows us to sniff any unencrypted data, see it in plain text also see passwords in plain text for some websites.
You will learn the main tools among many tools out there that can perform this attack for us.

WIFI CRACKING

You will learn how to gain access to a network by cracking its wireless password.

SOCIAL ENGINEERING

You will learn Social Engineering which is an attack on humans. Us humans are always the weakest link to security!

What you will build?

The best way you learn is by doing. That’s why the key part of this course is the real-world portfolio projects that you’ll build:

Source: Projects from Course Landing Page

About the Instructor 👨‍🏫

Andrei, the lead instructor of Zero To Mastery Academy, has taught more than 750,000 students worldwide.
Andrei has worked as a Senior Software Developer in Silicon Valley and Toronto for many years.
Aleksa, another Zero To Mastery Academy instructor, is a Penetration Tester with 5+ years of experience in Ethical Hacking & Cyber Security.
Aleksa’s goal is to teach you the foundations of Ethical Hacking & Cyber Security.
Graduates of ZTM Academy are now working at top tech companies and they are also working as top freelancers getting paid while working remotely around the world.

Bonus from ZTM:

If you’re serious about starting a full-time career in Ethical Hacking, you can take this course as part of the step-by-step Ethical Hacker Career Path

By enrolling today, you’ll also get to join our exclusive live online community classroom to learn alongside thousands of students, alumni, mentors, TAs and Instructors.

Zero To Mastery (ZTM) Platform Benefits

30-Day Money-back Guarantee

You have nothing to lose.
Because you can start learning right now and if this course isn’t everything you expected, ZTM will refund you 100% within 30 days.
No hassles and no questions asked.

ZTM Membership Plan Benefits

You get access to all of the courses from Zero To Mastery (ZTM) Academy for a monthly, yearly, or lifetime access plan
You can download the courses offline
You can get access to all current courses and future courses to be published

ZTM Offer

👉 Use Code: FRIENDS10 to get a 10% OFF special discount (for life!) before it expires!

So, what are you waiting for?

Note:

This course is also available at Udemy — “Complete Ethical Hacking Bootcamp 2023: Zero to Mastery”
Udemy’s biggest Black Friday sale of the season is live RIGHT NOW. (Till, November 25)

🎙 Disclosure:

Some of the links above may be affiliate links, from which I may earn a small commission.

Who Am I?

I’m Aswin Barath, a Software Engineering Nerd who loves building Web Applications, now sharing my knowledge through Blogging and Community events during the busy time of my freelancing work life.

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Good Job that you made it this far 👏👏
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Originally published at https://aswinbarath.tech on August 27, 2022.