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Practical Ethical Hacking: From Recon to Root
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Practical Ethical Hacking: From Recon to Root
Learn Ethical Hacking Hands-On: Reconnaissance, Enumeration, Exploitation & Privilege Escalation from Zero to Root
Created byAmit Agarwal
Last updated 9/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Learn the complete ethical hacking methodology from reconnaissance and enumeration to exploitation and privilege escalation.
- Master essential tools like Nmap, Gobuster, Nikto, Burp Suite, Hydra, Metasploit, and Linux utilities.
- Learn how to discover users, services, vulnerabilities, and attack paths on real-world style vulnerable machines.
- Exploit vulnerable services and web applications to gain initial access and obtain a shell.
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Course content
8 sections • 35 lectures • 5h 1m total length
Requirements
- No prior hacking experience required — just basic computer knowledge, curiosity, and a willingness to break things, learn, and think like a hacker.
Description
Ready to stop watching hacking tutorials and start actually hacking?
Welcome to Ethical Hacking: From Zero to Root — a hands-on course designed to take you from the fundamentals of ethical hacking to compromising vulnerable machines and achieving root access.
This course is built around practical hacking, not endless theory. You’ll learn how real penetration testers approach a target: starting with reconnaissance, discovering the attack surface, enumerating services and users, identifying vulnerabilities, exploiting weaknesses, gaining initial access, and finally escalating privileges to become root.
You’ll work with industry-standard tools such as Nmap, Gobuster, Nikto, Burp Suite, Hydra, Metasploit, and Linux command-line utilities while learning why and when to use them. Rather than blindly running automated tools, you’ll learn how to interpret their results, identify interesting attack paths, troubleshoot failed attempts, and adapt your methodology when things don't go according to plan.
The course also dives into one of the most important skills in penetration testing: enumeration. You’ll learn how seemingly small pieces of information — usernames, running services, directories, configurations, credentials, and application behavior — can be combined to uncover a viable path to compromise.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a structured methodology you can apply to new targets:
Recon → Enumerate → Identify → Exploit → Escalate → Root
Whether you're completely new to ethical hacking, studying cybersecurity, preparing for hands-on security certifications, or looking to build practical penetration-testing skills, this course gives you a realistic environment to learn by doing.
No previous hacking experience is required. Bring your curiosity, a willingness to experiment, and get ready to break things, understand why they broke, and learn how attackers think.
Your first target is waiting. Can you get root?
Who this course is for:
- Absolute beginners who want to learn ethical hacking hands-on, aspiring penetration testers, cybersecurity students, and anyone ready to go from zero knowledge to their first root shell.