Ethically Hack the Planet

Start with Linux basics, then learn browser hijacking and password cracking. Explore steganography, WiFi intrusion, phishing, device testing, location tracking, and password generation with Crunch.

Set up Kali Linux and Metasploitable 2 on VMware by downloading, extracting, and launching virtual machines, using default credentials Kali for Kali Linux and MSF admin for Metasploitable 2.

Discover essential Linux commands and learn how to interact with Linux, building a foundation for beginners before you start learning hacking.

Learn to navigate the current directory with pwd, update and upgrade packages with apt commands, and inspect system information with uname, including kernel version and detailed outputs.

Master essential Linux commands for ethical hackers, including ls to list files and cd to change directories, and use mkdir rm touch cp mv cat to manage files.

Explore browser security and ethical intrusion techniques using hands-on demos, showing how attackers exploit web interfaces and credentials, and how to prevent phishing and unauthorized access.

Discover how steganography hides secret messages inside images, such as a cat picture, and how it differs from cryptography by concealing data rather than encrypting it.

Explore wifi hacking through an easy, educational walkthrough. Gather information, track connected devices, disconnect a user, capture the handshake, and attempt a wordlist attack with aircrack ng.

Explore phishing attacks and human hacking, where attackers manipulate mindset with tone to steal credentials via malicious links and phishing pages, including a practical demonstration.

Explore Windows hacking concepts, common attack methods like password cracking, validity exploitation, malware, and social engineering, and examine remote exploitation using tools to generate Windows payloads and establish sessions.

Explore what mobile hacking entails, why Android users are targeted, and the main techniques hackers use—malware, phishing, network attacks, and app vulnerabilities—to protect mobile devices.

Explore location security through practical tools and techniques in Python, Stormbreaker, and IP drone to understand how IP addresses and ISP data reveal a target's location.

Explore how to bypass a Windows password in a VMware setup using Windows 10, and navigate the advanced options to examine security bypass techniques.

Explore sniffing with a practical demonstration showing how data travels between computers and can be captured by Wireshark, including a post request that reveals username and password.

Demonstrate using S3 drag to copy a website’s client-side components—HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, and other assets—and crawl the site to a project folder.

Unpack how a mac flooding attack works and learn security tips to defend networks, including how attackers exhaust router mac address tables using the macof tool.

Explore how to catch hackers by deploying a honeypot, a trap that attracts attackers and records IP addresses and geolocation data, with a basic Ruby-based setup.

Clarify the differences between the tff and the deep web, and contrast them with the dark web accessed via Tor. Learn the legal boundaries and potential risks.

Explore how exiftool, a powerful command line tool, reads, writes, and manipulates metadata across images, audio, and video, including geolocation and copyright tags.

Learn how to gather information about an email address by accessing the email header, copying it, and using a tracker to reveal IP address, country, region, city coordinates, and ISP.

Install the who am i? tool on Kali Linux, start it to anonymize your IP and MAC addresses, configure options, and restart the system to apply changes.

Explore how a key logger captures keystrokes and stores them in a log file, illustrating how passwords and other typed data can be recorded and examined.

Learn to gather information about a person using just their username with Sherlock. Install requirements with pip3, run Sherlock via python3, and search across platforms like seven cups and aboutme.

Prepare to study ethical hacking by ensuring you know Linux commands and have a monitor-mode adapter, then you can begin learning this cybersecurity course.

Enhance cybersecurity awareness by watching a practical demonstration of the evil twin attack and guided steps to understand how it works, framed for ethical education.