Class Central is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

YouTube

Ethical Hacking - Learn to Hack

Cyber Mentor via YouTube

Overview

Google, IBM & Meta Certificates – 40% Off
One Coursera Plus subscription covers most Professional Certificates on Coursera.
Unlock All Certificates
This beginner-level, hands-on course introduces ethical hacking through networking, Linux and scripting fundamentals, reconnaissance, enumeration, vulnerability research, exploitation, and privilege escalation. It concludes with guided walkthroughs of several capstone machines.

Syllabus

- Introduction/whoami.
- A Day in the Life of an Ethical Hacker.
- Effective Notekeeping.
- Important Tools.
- Networking Refresher: Introduction.
- IP Addresses.
- MAC Addresses.
- TCP, UDP, & the Three-Way Handshake.
- Common Ports & Protocols.
- The OSI Model.
- Subnetting.
- Installing VMWare / VirtualBox.
- Installing Kali Linux.
- Configuring VirtualBox.
- Kali Linux Overview.
- Sudo Overview.
- Navigating the File System.
- Users & Privileges.
- Common Network Commands.
- Network Commands Update.
- Installing & Updating Tools.
- Installing gedit.
- Viewing, Creating, & Editing Files.
- Scripting with Bash.
- Intro to Python.
- Strings.
- Math.
- Variables & Methods.
- Functions.
- Boolean Expressions.
- Relational & Boolean Operators.
- Conditional Statements.
- Lists.
- Tuples.
- Looping.
- Importing Modules.
- Advanced Strings.
- Dictionaries.
- Sockets.
- Building a Port Scanner.
- The 5 Stages of Ethical Hacking.
- Passive Recon Overview.
- Identifying Our Target.
- Discovering Email Addresses.
- Breached Credentials Part 1.
- Breached Credentials Part 2.
- Hunting Subdomains Part 1.
- Hunting Subdomains Part 2.
- Identifying Website Technologies.
- Gathering Information w/ Burp Suite.
- Google Fu.
- Utilizing Social Media.
- Installing Kioptrix.
- Scanning w/ Nmap.
- Enumerating HTTP/HTTPS Part 1.
- Enumerating HTTP/HTTPS Part 2.
- Enumerating SMB.
- Enumerating SSH.
- Researching Potential Vulnerabilities.
- Our Notes So Far.
- Scanning w/ Nessus Part 1.
- Scanning w/ Nessus Part 2.
- Reverse Shells vs Bind Shells.
- Staged vs Non-Staged Payloads.
- Gaining Root w/ Metasploit.
- Manual Exploitation.
- Brute Force Attacks.
- Credential Stuffing & Password Spraying.
- Our Notes, Revisited.
- Capstone Introduction.
- Setting up Blue.
- Blue Walkthrough.
- Academy Setup.
- Academy Walkthrough.
- Dev Walkthrough.
- Butler Walkthrough.
- Blackpearl Walkthrough.
- Conclusion.

Taught by

The Cyber Mentor

Reviews

5.0 rating, based on 1 Class Central review

Start your review of Ethical Hacking - Learn to Hack

  • The Ethical Hacking – Learn to Hack course was honestly way more detailed and fun than I expected. It doesn’t just throw random hacking tricks at you — it actually walks you through how hackers think, how systems break, and how to defend them proper…

Never Stop Learning.

Get personalized course recommendations, track subjects and courses with reminders, and more.

Someone learning on their laptop while sitting on the floor.