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The Complete Ethical Hacking Course: Beginner to Advanced! (Udemy.com)

Learn how to do ethical hacking, penetration testing, web testing, and wifi hacking using kali linux!

4.5
29,844 reviews

Created by: Ermin Kreponic

Last updated November 2017

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Based on the ratings of 29,844 students, a sample of their written reviews and the syllabus, as the course stood in November 2017. No course pays to be reviewed.

Ermin Kreponic's course is a 25 hour tour of Kali Linux tooling across 113 lectures: VirtualBox setup, Tor and ProxyChains, Nmap, WPA2 cracking, evil twin access points, SQL injection, brute forcing, reverse shells, and a four hour block on writing a keylogger in C++. About 291,000 students and nearly 30,000 reviews sit behind its 4.5 rating. It is aimed at complete beginners, and reviews back that up. People with no security background say the step by step walkthroughs got them going. The big catch is age. The last update was November 2017, and the syllabus still carries a Fedora 22 section.

Students like that Ermin explains what is happening on screen rather than just typing commands, and some mention that he answers questions in the Q&A when a lab breaks. The low ratings are mostly about age. Reviewers from 2020 onward say the Metasploit section no longer matches current tools, that some methods are five or six years behind, and that time gets wasted hunting for downloads that are no longer needed. Others complain the instructor rambles, hops between Fedora, Windows and Kali, and that the password cracking section feels rushed while other sections run long. Two reviewers say the labs do not translate well outside VirtualBox, and one found Q&A answers on real-world cases vague.

The recommendation is mixed. As an introduction to what the tools are and why they exist, it still works. If you want a course that tracks current Kali releases, check the update dates on its neighbours like Learn Ethical Hacking From Scratch before choosing. Take this one for the concepts and the instructor support, expect to search your way through some broken steps, and skip the retired lectures at the end.

Best forComplete beginners who want a broad tour of hacking tools and an instructor who answers Q&A, and can tolerate dated screens.
Skip it ifYou want commands that work unchanged on current Kali, or you already know Nmap, aircrack and Metasploit basics.

Pros

  • Explains what each command is doing on screen, which beginners say helps them follow along
  • Covers a wide toolset: Tor, ProxyChains, Nmap, aircrack, SQL injection, reverse shells and a C++ keylogger
  • Reviewers say Ermin answers Q&A questions and helps get broken labs working
  • Nearly 30,000 reviews at 4.5 stars, with over 14,000 of them five-star

Cons

  • Last updated November 2017, so the Metasploit and download steps often no longer match current tools
  • Instructor rambles and switches between Fedora, Windows and Kali, which confuses some students
  • No quizzes, exercises or projects; some sections run long while password cracking feels rushed
The instructor communicates clearly and seems genuinely helpful. A few bits were outdated (Metasploit section), please consider updating.
Aleem Riaz, a student

Listed as all levels but built for beginners; you only need a wireless card and a machine that can run VirtualBox.

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What you will learn

  • Answers to every single question you have about ethical hacking and penetration testing from an experienced IT professional!
  • Tips for remaining anonymous in hacking and penetration testing activities.
  • A guide to using these skills to get a better job and make money online as a freelancer.
  • The ability to secure and protect any network from hackers and loss of data.
  • A complete tutorial explaining how to build a virtual hacking environment, attack networks, and break passwords.
  • Step by step instructions for insulation VirtualBox and creating your virtual environment on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Course content

26 sections · 113 lectures · 25 hours of video

  1. 1Prerequisites for getting started with this course. 2 free previews3 lectures · 17 min
  2. 2Basic hacking terms you will want to know getting started. 2 free previews2 lectures · 30 min
  3. 3Build your hacking environment!8 lectures · 1.4 hours
  4. 4Set up instructions for Mac users ONLY8 lectures · 2 hours
  5. 5How to create a bootable USB of Kali Linux ( optional )4 lectures · 55 min
  6. 6Updates: How to install VirtualBox on Fedora 22 + Kali Sana VM ( OPTIONAL )3 lectures · 30 min
  7. 7Linux Terminal including basic functionalities and CLI.3 lectures · 39 min
  8. 8What is Tor? How can you use it to protect your anonymity online?2 lectures · 26 min
  9. 9ProxyChains for using proxy servers, hiding your ip, and obtaining access.3 lectures · 39 min
  10. 10What is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) and how you can stay anonymous with VPN?2 lectures · 28 min

Who it is for

The instructor says it suits

  • You can begin this course with any level of knowledge and quickly start advancing your skills as an information technology and security expert anywhere in the world!
  • If you are working to advance your career on LinkedIn or as a freelancer online, you can use the skills you build in this course to get a better job and to increase your hourly pay rate.
  • If you are hoping to be a better network administrator, you can use this course to learn how to secure networks and protect assets.

What you need before you start

  • Reliable and fast internet connection.
  • Wireless networking card.

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Course Description

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Hacking Awards Best Paid Course

Gain the ability to do ethical hacking and penetration testing by taking this course! Get answers from an experienced IT expert to every single question you have related to the learning you do in this course including installing Kali Linux, using VirtualBox, basics of Linux, Tor, Proxychains, VPN, Macchanger, Nmap, cracking wifi, aircrack, DoS attacks, SLL strip, known vulnerabilities, SQL injections, cracking Linux passwords, and more topics that are added every month!

If you are like me, you are reading more now because you want to know for sure whether this course is worth taking before you invest your money and time in it. More than10,000 people have already completed the process of deciding to take this course and I hope sharing a few of their experiences can prove useful for you here. Here are what three recent students had to say in the reviews in their own words.

Awesome Course by Penny Garcia.

  • I am 11 videos in and LOVING this course right now. The instructor is very thorough. I would certainly recommend this course to others as I am just starting out in pen testing and hacking and feel that this is what I have been looking for. Thank you so much for putting the time and effort into such an amazing course.
Best course ever.. by Mahmoud Selman.
  • Thank you guys for such a great course. It's the best one ever on Udemy and worth every penny. You have covered everything inside it. Students be aware! What you are going to learn here in this course is going to blow your mind!! and you got to use what you learn wisely otherwise if you misuse this info you can get from 5 to 10 years in jail. Keep it White hat.

Very helpful instructor by Deepak Muralidharan.

  • Ermin Kreponic has been very helpful in solving many hiccups pertaining to this course. Especially considering the time difference between us. Much appreciated his help.

What you can see from reading these three reviews is that students love the technical support Ermin provides through answering questions about all of the subjects presented in the course. The lectures themselves are helpful and will inspire you to try actually doing what you see Ermin do. Then when you try to learn and have problems, you experience the greatest value of the course which is access to the instructor for help. You can ask anything related to the course and Ermin will give you a thoughtful answer which will consistently help you solve the problems you are having in learning ethical hacking and penetration testing.

Thank you very much for reading so much of the description for this course! The fact that you have spent some of your very valuable time here already reading this course leads me to believe that you will enjoy being a student in the course a lot! Find the "take this course" or "start free preview" button up on the page to give the course a try today!

If you want to learn more about what the course contains, here is a short list of questions to help you decide if you should take it followed by a deep list of the course lectures below. What you see is just the beginning of what the course includes because Ermin is making new lectures every month for you! You will get to see screen capture live tutorials showing you everything you need to do to get started with ethical hacking and penetration testing including information about all of the topics below!

  • How to install VirtualBox.
  • What to do to create the virtual environment.
  • Installing VirtualBox in a Windows 8.1 environment.
  • Basic Linux terminal.
  • Staying anonymous with tor.
  • Virtual Private Networks (VPN).

You get lifetime access to this course which already has 20+ hours of HD video tutorials sharing everything you need to be a penetration testing expert and ethical hacker! If you are still not sure, here are three questions you can use to make the final decision!

  1. Do you want to learn how to penetrate networks, exploit systems, break into computers, and compromise routers?
  2. Do you want to use the valuable skills to work for companies that want you to use these skills to test their network security and show them to enhance it?
  3. How would you feel if you could apply these skills to what you already know to greatly advance your career as a network specialist, network administrator, or freelancer online?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, I would guess based on my experience teaching 50,000+ students on Udemy that you might enjoy this course. If for any reason I am wrong, you have 30 days to ask Udemy for a refund. With 98% of students enjoying this course enough to not ask for a refund and 50+ students posting good reviews, I can guess the odds of you enjoying this course are very high!Thank you very much for reading all of this! Ermin and I hope to see you as a student in the course when we next meet!
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Instructor Details

Ermin Kreponic

Strongly motivated young IT expert, Linux enthusiast with a passion for troubleshooting network related problems. With an exceptional eye for details and a sense of urgency when it comes down to problem solving.

Skills
- Advanced knowledge of Linux command line
- Installation, configuration and maintenance of servers that run under Unix/Linux type
operating systems
To name a few: DNS, TFTP, FTP, SSH, APACHE, SMTP, VSFTP and some others
- Troubleshooting a wide range of network related problems. Meaning, digging deep for
packets on any given network.
Using one of my favourite tools for capturing and filtering packets on the network, Wireshark,
and resolving end-user issues
- Good understanding of Cisco routers and IOS operating system
- Configuration and implementation of Linux firewall namely Iptables
- Supervision and filtration of network traffic
- Tightening down security and pen testing networks for possible vulnerabilities
- Good knowledge of network gear brands and their strengths or weaknesses
- Preforming system back up
- Fair knowledge of Bash scripting
- equipment installation, upgrades, patches, and configuration.


Personal note:

I do not sleep much, but that is not only because I work hard, rather instead it is
because I

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By Kalpesh Bhosale on 8/11/2020

This course is helps me to learn ethical hacking from grassroots. It will help me to make my career as professional hacker .Except some chapters,I have enjoyed entire course . Requesting to instructor to involv some practice excercise at end the end of each chapter Thanks

By Aleem Riaz on 5/24/2020

The course is well structured and covers a wide range of essentials topics. The instructor communicates clearly and seems genuinely helpful. A few bits were outdated (Metasploit section), please consider updating. Also the section on cracking passwords felt rushed. Overall a good course that I would recommend.

By TimO on 1/25/2018

Enjoyed the course besides the topic being covered you will also be exposed to some Linux administration on 2 varieties of Linux. Examples worked or could be made to work with help from the QA. Instructor seemed to teaching to those new to the topics. Since this is hacking I suppose the lab environment is the only practical format but that also the greatest cause of confusion, maybe instead of real world examples a thorough explanation of the world outside the LAN would be effective.

By Vincent Casella on 1/24/2018

I recommend this course to anyone that has the desire to learn functional real-world Ethical Hacking skills from the ground up because all the subjects discussed in each lecture will provide you with detailed easy to understand hacking methods that cover a comprehensive list of pertinent skills that are clearly effective right now.

By Force Recon on 8/7/2017

Informative, Basics that can put you on your path. Instructor, consistently makes mistakes, but provides solutions real time. I appreciate the fact that he troubleshoots during the course in most cases. It helps you understand where the errors exist, why and how to fix them. Overall, excellent explanations that provide useful education opening the doors to the next chapter in the series and providing a basic understanding of what you need to do, learn and how to achieve your goals. Nice work!

By Giovanni on 5/26/2017

The course is well structured the teacher is very clear through the accent. The course is a very good practical intro guide into hacking world for begginer,it explains the most used technical and tool in hacking. My valutation is 4 star because of the course is not updated,infacts many tools that we use in this course are now updated instead of tools used by teacher.

By Ryan Austin on 4/1/2017

The course seems a bit extended for certain subjects and less for others that could have used it. It has really great explanations but most of which are very scattered and hard to interpret at times could use more structure. Was hoping that it would be more with kali linux instead many of the tutorials were done in fedora or windows. Learned a lot but feel like there could have been more or it could have been shortened into less vids. Also seems a bit outdated for this area.

By Mark Judge on 4/3/2016

First time on Udemy and I am amazed! I personally find the whole experience so very easy to get on with. The course I am on is extremely well pitched and covers the details in an easy to digest package. Instructor is good at lectures, support is live and I am learning FAST! I am truly energised and can't wait to spend more time here :D Update: Getting on very well with this course, learning fast. After this course I will be looking for other courses here. I feel this is a great learning gateway for the subjects I love. Finished the course and loved it!

By Mourad Houmel on 3/10/2016

i could do the course again and again without felling bored it's really good course and enjoy it i had some issue in the first when i started and i posted my question and i had the answer very quick and he helped me trough and now i feel like i learned something and i'm very confident i thank you all and im willing to go for the next level thank you again

By Kashif on 7/25/2015

I loved the course end to end. The course was exactly as the title suggested, you could start as an absolute beginner but have substantial knowledge upon completion of the course. One to one question/answer helped me clarified a lot of terms, concepts and techniques. Ermin's easy to understand style, his passion with the subject and patience with silly questions were the major attributes which kept me hooked until I finished. I certainly recommend this course to anyone who is interested. You can take my words, you won't regret it :)

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  • Lectures:113 in 26 sections
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