Complete Ethical Hacking Course 2026 : Go From Zero to Hero

In this lecture, I will start you off with basic terms used in ethical hacking

I will be talking about some of the basic terms which you will need order to follow this course through. I will go over the three different types of hackers: White Hat Hackers, Grey Hat Hackers and Black Hat Hackers. Everything that we will be doing in this course falls in the white hat category, which include people such pen testers, ethical hackers - people like you and me. The activities of Grey Hat Hacker border between legal and illegal. Black Hat Hackers conduct all sorts of illegal activities: extract new information from certain servers credentials, your card information, take services down usually to extract some sort of financial gain, etc.
I will also go over footprinting, DoS, DDoS, RAT, fishing, rootkit, etc.

How to install VirtualBox in a Windows environment

In this lecture, I will show you how to install VirtualBox within a Windows environment. Previously I showed you how to do it in a Linux environment, which is a bit more complex because you do need to add repositories and then pull the packet from the repositories. However in Windows, the process is fairly straightforward and simple.

How to install Kali Linux within a virtual environment.

In this lecture, I will continue with the installation of Kali Linux within a virtual environment. I will also go over more of the things you need to know about this installation. In the following lecture, after the installation is complete, I will show you how to configure it and introduce you to its interface.

How to configure Kali Linux in a virtual environment.

In this lecture, I will continue where we left off in the installation process of Kali Linux in a virtual environment. Now I will show you how to configure Kali Linux, as well as introduce you to the interface. I will also begin walking you through how to do the updates.

Welcome to the Linux terminal!

In this lecture, I will introduce you to the Linux terminal and show you some of its basic functionalities. Knowing how the Linux terminal works gives you a huge amount of power. All the power of the operating system rests on its terminal. In the following lectures, I will go even more into detail and dig deeper into Linux functions and commands.

Tor, short for The Onion Router, is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. It directs Internet traffic via a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network that consists of more than seven thousand relays. Using Tor makes it more difficult to trace a user's Internet activity.

The first Hidden Wiki was operated through the .onion pseudo top-level domain which can be accessed only by using Tor or a Tor gateway. Its main page provided a community-maintained link directory to other hidden services, including links claiming to offer money laundering, contract killing, cyber-attacks for hire, contraband chemicals, and bomb making. The rest of the wiki was essentially uncensored as well and also offered links to sites hosting child pornography and abuse images.

Anonsurf is one of the good anonymizing tools of Linux distribution. It helps us make our network tunnel secure. This tool uses TOR iptables to anonymize our network system.

A virtual private network, or VPN, is an encrypted connection over the Internet from a device to a network. The encrypted connection helps ensure that sensitive data is safely transmitted.

Proxy chaining involves forwarding traffic from one proxy server to another. This method leverages your existing proxy servers, with no additional changes to the network. It's a quick and easy way to forward your traffic to the Zscaler service from an existing on-premises proxy.

Enabling Monitor Mode helps with spying and sniffing around the network and the router. There are various ways to enable the Monitor Mode in Kali Linux Operating System. Different adapters have different enabling ways to enable Monitor Mode. A few ways to enable Monitor Mode are using iwconfig, airmon-ng, and iw.