We are going to take you from an absolute beginner of setting up your own hacking lab (like Kali Linux) on your machine, all the way to becoming a security expert that is able to use all the hacking techniques used by hackers and defend against them!

Graduates of Zero To Mastery are now working at Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, Uber, Facebook, Shopify + other top tech companies.

They are also working as top freelancers getting paid while working remotely around the world.

This can be you.

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.

Most importantly, you will be learning from industry experts that have actual real-world experience working on security for large companies and websites/apps with millions of visitors.

Whether you are a complete beginner looking to become an Ethical Hacker, or someone looking to learn about securing computer systems, or a programmer looking to improve their security online and prevent attacks from hackers on your website, this Ethical Hacking course is for you.

We take you deep into the world of hacking and penetration testing.

What if I don't know programming?

Not to worry. We include a section where we teach you Python programming from scratch including how to build your own tools for hacking and penetration testing.

This course is focused on learning by doing.

You are going to learn how hacking works by actually using and practicing the techniques and methods used by hackers today.

You will start off by creating your own hacking lab to make sure we keep your computer safe throughout the course, as well as doing things legally.

Once we have our computers set up for ethical hacking, we will start diving deep into beginner to advanced topics like:

0️⃣ HACKING LAB

You will build your own hacking lab where we can perform our attacks (any operating system will work).

This lab is essentially a virtual machine that we will use for hacking (Kali Linux). Throughout the course, we also create additional virtual vulnerable machines that we can practice our attacks on.

The reason we use virtual machines is because we are not allowed to test our attacks on real-world websites and networks so we create our own environment to do that.

• Downloading Virtual Box & Kali Linux
• Creating Our First Virtual Machine
• Installing Kali Linux Operating System
• 5 Stages Of A Penetration Test
• Navigating Through Kali Linux System
• Creating Files & Managing Directories
• Network Commands & Sudo Privileges In Kali

1️⃣ OPTIONAL: PYTHON 101

Learn Python 3 programming from scratch. This section is not mandatory and is optional for those that want to learn to programming so you are able to build your own ethical hacking tools!

• Learn Python Basics
• Learn Python Intermediate
• Learn Python: Error Handling
• Learn Python: File I/O

2️⃣ RECONNAISSANCE

You will learn what we call Footprinting (aka Information Gathering). Once we choose our target, our first task is to gain as much information about the target as possible.

• What is Information Gathering?
• Physical Address Using Whois Tool
• What is Web Stealthy Scan
• Aggressive Website Technology Discovering on IP Range
• Gathering Emails Using theHarvester & Hunterio
• How To Download Tools Online
• Finding Usernames With Sherlock
• Bonus: Email Scraper Tool In Python 3

3️⃣ SCANNING

This is where things get real. In this section, we also gather information but we try to gather only technical information (i.e. 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.).

• Theory Behind Scanning
• TCP & UDP
• Installing Vulnerable Virtual Machine
• Netdiscover
• Performing First Nmap Scan
• Different Nmap Scan Types
• Discovering Target Operating System
• Detecting Version Of Service Running On An Open Port
• Filtering Port Range & Output Of Scan Results
• What is a Firewall/IDS?
• Using Decoys and Packet Fragmentation
• Security Evasion Nmap Options
• Python Coding Project - Port Scanner

4️⃣ VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS

Use the information that you gathered from scanning (such as software that the target has running on open ports) and with this information, we try to determine whether there are any known vulnerabilities.

• Finding First Vulnerability With Nmap Scripts
• Manual Vulnerability Analysis & Searchsploit
• Nessus Installation
• Discovering Vulnerabilities With Nessus
• Scanning Windows 7 Machine With Nessus

5️⃣ EXPLOITATION & GAINING ACCESS

This is the exciting part of the course. This is where we attack and gain access to the target machines.

Throughout this section, we will be covering many different vulnerabilities and different targets. We perform these attacks on our virtual machines and cover another really important tool for an ethical hacker: Metasploit Framework.

The goal of exploitation is to get on that target machine. This means we must drop a payload on that target machine so we can use it to navigate through their systems, look through their files, execute anything we want, and delete anything we want without the target knowing anything about it.

We 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.

• What is Exploitation?
• What is a Vulnerability?
• Reverse Shells, Bind Shells
• Metasploit Framework Structure
• Msfconsole Basic Commands
• Our First Exploit - vsftp 2.3.4 Exploitation
• Misconfigurations Happen - Bindshell Exploitation
• Information Disclosure - Telnet Exploit
• Software Vulnerability - Samba Exploitation
• Attacking SSH - Bruteforce Attack
• Exploitation Challenge - 5 Different Exploits
• Explaining Windows 7 Setup
• Eternal Blue Attack - Windows 7 Exploitation
• DoublePulsar Attack - Windows Exploit
• BlueKeep Vulnerability - Windows Exploit
• Routersploit
• Router Default Credentials
• Setting Up Vulnerable Windows 10
• Crashing Windows 10 Machine Remotely
• Exploiting Windows 10 Machine Remotely
• Generating Basic Payload With Msfvenom
• Advance Msfvenom Usage
• Generating Powershell Payload Using Veil
• TheFatRat Payload Creation
• Hexeditor & Antiviruses
• Making Our Payload Open An Image

6️⃣ POST EXPLOITATION

Post exploitation is what we do on the target machine after we have exploited it.

Once we are on a machine, we can do many things depending on what we want to get out from it. After we do all of the things we wanted, we want to make sure we cover our tracks by deleting any event logs or deleting any evidence that we were ever on that machine.

• Post Exploitation Theory
• Meterpreter Basic Commands
• Elevating Privileges With Different Modules
• Creating Persistence On The Target System
• Post Exploitation Modules
• Python Coding Project - Backdoor

7️⃣ WEBSITE PENETRATION TESTING

Another important topic for an Ethical Hacker. In this section, we are mainly targeting websites and their bugs/vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can be anything from misconfigurations, 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).

• Website Penetration Testing Theory
• HTTP Request & Response
• Information Gathering & Dirb Tool
• Burpsuite Configuration
• ShellShock Exploitation
• Command Injection Exploitation
• Getting Meterpreter Shell With Command Execution
• Reflected XSS & Cookie Stealing
• Stored XSS
• HTML Injection
• SQL Injection
• CSRF Vulnerability
• Hydra Bruteforce Attack
• Burpsuite Intruder
• Python Coding Project - Login Brute-force + Directory Discovery

8️⃣ MAN IN THE MIDDLE

This is an attack that is used inside a network. This allows us to sniff any unencrypted data and see it in plain text. This could also include seeing passwords in plain text for some websites. There are many tools out there that can perform this attack for us. We cover some of the main ones.

• Theory - Man In The Middle Attack
• Bettercap ARP Spoofing
• Ettercap Password Sniffing
• Manually Poisoning Targets ARP ache With Scapy

9️⃣ WIFI CRACKING

Learn how to gain access to a network by cracking its wireless password.

• Wireless Cracking Theory
• Putting Wireless Card In Monitor Mode
• Deauthenticating Devices & Grabbing Password
• Aircrack Password Cracking
• Hashcat Password Cracking

1️⃣0️⃣ SOCIAL ENGINEERING

This is something we cover in almost every section. Social Engineering is an attack on humans. Us humans are always the weakest link of security!

Bonus: We also provide you with a ton of bonus resources, cheatsheets & much more!

As you can see, this a very comprehensive course. But you still might be thinking...

Should I learn ethical hacking? Is it really worth it?

If these stats don't convince you, we 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

Ginni Rometty, IBM’s chairman, president and CEO, said: “Cybercrime is the greatest threat to every company in the world.”

And she might be right. With evolving technology comes evolving hackers. In the coming years, cybercrime might become the greatest threat to every person, place and thing in the world.

Learning the skills of an Ethical Hacker that you'll learn in this course will help you level-up your skillset so that you can earn a higher salary as an existing programmer or even get hired as an Ethical Hacker without any experience at all.

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