Ethical Hacking Course: Protect Yourself From Being Hacked (Udemy.com)
Learn about the Dark Web, Social Engineering, Backdoors, Website Hacking, SQL Injection, Wireless attacks and more!
Created by: Tim Buchalka's Learn Programming Academy
Last updated April 2025
What you will learn
- Learn the theory, background and tools used to leverage most updated attacks in the hacking world
- Learn how to protect yourselves from these attacks
- Be able to apply for junior I.T. security positions
How it compares
Against the other 523 rated Udemy courses in Hacking on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 33% of them
- Reviews483#281 of 524 by number of reviews
- Length13.3 hourslonger than 80% of them
- Last updatedApril 2025earlier than 53% of them
Course Description
So you want to get a job in Information Technology security, but are struggling to get an interview, let alone a job.
Or you got hacked, or know someone who got hacked, or are just worried about getting hacked, and want to learn how to protect yourself.
Maybe you have some skills in ethical hacking, but want to take your skills to the next level.
If anything of this sounds like you, then this course is for you.
The facts are, hacking is on the rise, and more and more people are getting hacked, and it's getting easier than ever to become a victim.
How do you protect yourself?
By learning how the hackers do what they do!
This course will start from scratch teaching you every you need to know about how to protect yourself against Hackers.
You will learn how hackers actually hack, both the theory, and the practical. The focus is on protecting yourself against attacks.
Step by step, you will build your own hacking lab, so that you can work through both the theory and the implementation of real hacks with your own live experiments in your lab.
You will learn most of the major ways hackers succeed, and will obtain the knowledge to not only protect yourself, but to launch an exciting new career to help prevent others from become victims of hacks as well.
Some of the main topics in the course include:-
VPN & DNS
The Dark Web
Wireless network attacks and protection,
Man In The Middle attacks and prevention
Capturing screenshots of targets
Beef usage
Wireshark Analysis
Metasploit Framework
Maltego Usage
Social Engineering
Backdoors
Meterpreter Sessions
Website Hacking and protecting yourselves
SQL Codes
SQL Injections
XSS Vulnerabilities
Kali Linux will be used to demonstrate how the hacks work and how to protect yourself.
Why enrolling in this course is the best decision you can make.
This course is ideal for those who want to learn to be an Ethical Hacker. If you do not have any security or programming experience, no problem! The course assumes no previous experience, and starts with the most basic issues, and continues step by step to more complex topics.
By the end of the course, you will be able to do a real hacking attack and you will be able to protect yourself and your organizations against this attack. This could be the start of a brand new career for you. Security consultants are in high demand.
Concepts such as Kali Linux, Wireshark, Maltego, NetDiscover, MSFC, Trojan, Veil, Metasploitable, SQLi, Mana, MITMF, Crunch, Meterpreter, Beef, nmap, Zenmap and SQLMap are explored in depth.
The course starts with practical applications and gradually moves into more complex material. You will even learn how to write SQL code to put the theory into practice.
Hacking is a very confusing topic online, with lots of "theory" on how to hack and how to protect yourself. This course will teach you the right way, via real-time hacking experiences . You will learn how to protect ourselves from all these attacks from an expert.
Important Notice: All information that is taught in this course is intended to protect yourself or others against attacks. All students should be coming into the course committed to using the information they learn within the legal framework.
This is a course for anyone who wants to protect themselves, or others against hacking by truly understanding how hacking works.
After completing this course, you will have the necessary skills to be able to protect yourself or others against hack attempts, and to truly understand how these hacks work.
The sooner you sign up for this course, the sooner you will have the skills and knowledge you need to increase your job or consulting opportunities in the Information Security.
Security consultants with hacking skills are in high demand, because they have the skills to prevent hacks.
Your new job or consulting opportunity awaits!
Why not get started today?
Click the Signup button to sign up for the course
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
483 Reviews
Tim Buchalka's Learn Programming Academy
The Learn Programming Academy was created by Tim Buchalka, a software developer with 40 years experience, who is also an instructor on Udemy, with over 2.28M+ students in his courses on Java, Python, Android, C# and the Spring framework.
The Academy’s goal in the next three years, is to teach five million people to learn how to program.
Apart from Tim’s own courses, which are all available here, we are working with the very best teachers, creating courses to teach the essential skills required by developers, at all levels.
One other important philosophy is that our courses are taught by real professionals; software developers with real and substantial experience in the industry, who are also great teachers. All our instructors are experienced, software developers!
Our team is busy creating new courses right now.
Whether you are a beginner, looking to learn how to program for the very first time, or to brush up on your existing skills, or to learn new languages and frameworks, the Academy has you covered.
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Reviews
By Liadain Slowey on 5/26/2022
Description is misleading - much of the course focuses on "here are bad things that you can do and how to do them" and little, if anything, on "here is how you stop people from doing the bad things". Enrolled specifically to learn more about SQL injection only to find that nowhere in the course is it discussed how SQL injection works or how to protect your databases from it! Waste of a good hour or two of working time...
By GitBurned cmd on 12/14/2021
This was a good course at one point, but a lot of it is outdated and should not be up for purchase on Udemy, in my opinion. Still a lot of good content, but to actually follow along and apply these skills are rather difficult since how old it is. You will find yourself searching on Youtube or other courses for up-to-date answers. Take it down or update the videos!
By Aristotelis Tsiggelis on 4/30/2021
Well I can say that instructor is doing a great job. I love linux and have some experience with it. He explains everything in detail even for beginners. I m looking forward to learn a lot from him and believe he has a lot to offer. Thanks a lot to him and of course to Tim's team Tim Buchalka's Learn Programming Academy
By Randall Schwanke on 1/11/2019
Like how we are walking through the course. Perfect for myself and others who are just starting out, by this I mean that what I am learning is not intended for illegal activity but rather to protect myself and my systems I have setup. It goes back to the keep your friends close, but keep your enimeys closer.
By Michaël Prost on 3/14/2018
Really, really, really interesting course if you're looking to understand basis of becoming an ethical hacker using Kali. Every concept is demonstrated and you can follow along. Teacher also encourages you to work on your own to discover all Kali's capacities. Of course, it's only basis and it requires patience and hard work for student but the course is really informative and easy to follow. The teacher is really interesting and friendly, his explanations transforms hard topics into easy ones. I hope to see you soon in another course Atil! ;)
By Rich dama on 3/12/2018
I like to learn and the opportunity of taking an online course is awesome; I can do it from home, a cafe, a beach that has internet etc. Its really wonderful to have this flexibility and I'm excited. I bought the course a little while ago but was nervous and bound up about starting the class- I would just freeze up and not log on. Needless to say, I got past the "mental block" after listening to the instructors intro, I'm rejuvenated and even more excited to stay on task; the instructor"s style is very engaging and so i'm hooked... five stars hooked.
By Hossain Md Zakir on 2/21/2018
Great course! Mr Atil Samancioglu is a friendly @ Experienced Instructor. He tried his best to communicate all the information related to this course with students. This course is very easy to follow and understand. Overall, the course is very useful and practical in the real world and the current Generation. Thank you for sharing knowledge and RECOMMEND THIS COURSE FOR EVERYONE WHOEVER WANTS TO LEARN ETHICAL HACKING IN A SIMPLE WAY.
By Todd Miller on 2/21/2018
Enlightening, explains the theory then deep dives with examples. Knowledgeable instructor, I found this easy to follow and understand. Spent many hours between sessions applying the knowledge in labs...and plan to revisit this course as I continue to apply the knowledge learned. Enjoyed the fact of going over previous setups in order to reinforce what you have learned. This approach worked well for me, but understand where others may which to jump ahead. I would highly recommend the course and Instructor.
By Christophe Rémond on 12/3/2017
Addictive I always wanted to know a little bit more about hacking but could not really found time and motivation (e.g. reading books on hacking until their end). Thanks to Atil and its great course (which is very well organized), I think I will get it and be capable to reach my goal to insure a better protection to my networked computers. What is great too, is that Atil stays accessible and answer very quick and efficiently to all of my questions.
By Leonardo Borsten on 11/30/2017
Everything is very well explained. I am following along and pretty much everything on my end works exactly like shown in the lectures. The only different thing I saw is that when I follow the instruction "airodump-ng wlan0mon" my terminal responds with "failed: No such device". If I instead type "airodump-ng wlan0" (without the "mon") then it seems to work. I'll have to figure out why this is.
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