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Learn Ethical Hacking From Scratch

Become an ethical hacker that can hack like black hat hackers and secure systems like cybersecurity experts

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Created byZaid Sabih, z Security

Last updated 11/2025

English

What you'll learn

145+ videos (15+ hours) to teach you ethical hacking & cybersecurity from scratch.
Use 30+ hacking tools such as Metasploit, Aircrack-ng, SQLmap, etc.
85+ hands-on real-life hacking examples.
No prior knowledge required
Hack & secure WiFi & wired networks.
Hack cloud servers.
Create backdoors & Hack Windows.
Start from 0 up to a high-intermediate level.
Discover & exploit web application vulnerabilities to hack websites.
Learn Network Hacking / Penetration Testing.
Learn about the different hacking fields & hackers.
Install a hacking lab & needed software (on Windows, OS X and Linux).
Discover vulnerabilities & exploit them to hack into servers.
Hack secure systems using client-side & social engineering.
Secure systems from all the attacks shown.
Install & use Kali Linux - a hacking operating system.
Linux basics.
Linux commands
How to use the Linux terminal.
Network basics & how devices interact inside a network.
Run attacks on networks without knowing its key.
Control Wi-Fi connections without knowing the password.
Create a fake Wi-Fi network with internet connection & spy on clients.
Gather detailed information about networks & connected clients like their OS, ports ...etc.
Crack WEP/WPA/WPA2 encryptions.
ARP Spoofing / ARP Poisoning.
Launch various Man In The Middle attacks.
Access any account accessed by any client on the network.
Sniff network traffic & analyse it to extract important info such as: passwords, cookies, urls, videos, images ..etc.
Intercept network traffic & modify it on the fly.
Discover devices connected to the same network.
Inject Javascript in pages loaded by clients connected to the same network.
Redirect DNS requests to any destination (DNS spoofing).
Secure networks from the discussed attacks.
Edit router settings for maximum security.
Discover suspicious activities in networks.
How to prevent MITM attacks.
Discover open ports, installed services and vulnerabilities on computer systems.
Exploit buffer over flows & code execution vulnerabilities to gain control over systems.
Hack systems using client side attacks.
Hack Windows using fake updates.
Backdoor normal programs.
Backdoor any file type such as pictures, pdf's ...etc.
Gather information about people, such as emails, social media accounts, emails and friends.
Hack secure systems using social engineering.
Send emails from ANY email account without knowing the password for that account.
Analyse malware.
Manually detect undetectable malware.
Read, write download, upload and execute files on compromised systems.
Capture keystrikes on a compromised system.
Use a compromised computer as a pivot to hack other systems.
Understand how websites & web applications work.
Understand how browsers communicate with websites.
Gather sensitive information about websites.
Discover servers, technologies & services used on target website.
Discover emails & sensitive data associated with a specific website.
Discover subdomains associated with a website.
Discover unpublished directories & files associated with a target website.
Discover websites hosted on the same server as the target website.
Exploit file upload vulnerabilities to gain control over target website.
Discover, exploit and fix code execution vulnerabilities.
Discover, exploit & fix local file inclusion vulnerabilities.
Discover, exploit & fix SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Bypass login forms and login as admin using SQL injections.
Exploit SQL injections to find databases, tables & sensitive data such as usernames, passwords...etc
Read / Write files to the server using SQL injections.
Learn the right way to write SQL queries to prevent SQL injections.
Discover reflected XSS vulnerabilities.
Discover Stored XSS vulnerabilities.
Hook victims to BeEF using XSS vulnerabilities.
Fix XSS vulnerabilities & protect yourself from them as a user.
Discover MITM & ARP Spoofing attacks.

Course content

25 sections • 142 lectures • 15h 3m total length

Teaser - Hacking Windows 11 & Accessing the Webcam7:20
This is a teaser lecture, in it I show you an example of the things you'll be able to do at the end of the course, in this lecture I show you how to hack into a Windows 11 machine and turn on its web cam without asking the user to do anything.
As this is a teaser, I won't be going into details about how this is achieved, but don't worry about that as I will break this down to you through out the course and you will understand exactly how to do it.
This is just one example, by the end of the course you'll learn much more attacks and you'll be able to target all operating systems.
Course Introduction & Overview2:53
Welcome to the course, this lecture will give you a full outline of the structure of the course, and will give you an over view of what you will learn in each section.
What Is Hacking & Why Learn It ?3:09
In this lecture you will learn what is meant by a hacker and what is the difference between white hat, grey hat and a black hat hacker. We will talk about why do we teach/learn hacking, benefits of it and job opportunities.

Update Notice2:13
Lab Overview5:54
In this course, we will be using a number of operating systems, Kali for hacking and 2 others as target machines, in this section you will learn how to install all of these machines as virtual machines inside your current operating system, this allows us to use all of the machines at the same time, it also completely isolates these machines from your main machine therefore your main machine will not be affected if anything goes wrong.
Everything shown here will work on Windows, Linux and OS X.
Initial Prepration9:12
This lecture will introduce you to the hacking operating system that we will be using throughout the course; Kali Linux. You will learn what it is, how to download it, and how to enable virtualisation on your system to run it as a virtual machine.
Installing Kali Linux as a VM on Windows9:16
This lecture will teach you how to install Kali Linux as a virtual machine in VMware Workstation Player on Windows.
VMware is the software that we will use to install different operating systems inside our current operating system as virtual machines. This will be very useful as you can use it to test and practice what you learn in this course.
Installing Kali Linux as a VM on Apple Mac OS (Intel & Silicon Chips)9:24
This lecture will teach you how to install Kali Linux as a virtual machine in VMware Fusion on Mac OS.
VMware is the software that we will use to install different operating systems inside our current operating system as virtual machines. This will be very useful as you can use it to test and practice what you learn in this course.
Installing Kali Linux as a VM on Linux10:41
This lecture will teach you how to install Kali Linux as a virtual machine in VMware Workstation Player on Linux.
VMware is the software that we will use to install different operating systems inside our current operating system as virtual machines. This will be very useful as you can use it to test and practice what you learn in this course.

Introduction to Network Hacking / Penetration Testing2:21
This is an introduction lecture for the network penetration testing section, it will give you an overview of the structure of this section and what you will learn in it
Networks Basics4:28
Before jumping to network hacking you need to know some basics about networks, in this lecture you will learn how networks work and how devices communicate with each other.
Connecting a Wireless Adapter To Kali6:51
This video will teach you how to connect a USB device to Kali, as an example I will be connecting a wireless adapter to it so I can interact with wireless networks and try to hack them form Kali.
What is MAC Address & How To Change It8:20
MAC address (Media Access Control) - is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces.
In this lecture you'll learn what is is, how its used, and how to change it using Kali Linux.
Wireless Modes (Managed & Monitor)6:57
This lecture will clarify why is it possible to capture any packet around us even if it's not directed to our device, you will learn about two wireless modes: monitor and managed mode, you shall learn what is the difference between them, when do we use each of them and how to correctly enable monitor mode on your wireless card.

Packet Sniffing Basics6:40
This is the first lecture in the "pre connection section", in this lecture you will learn how to use airodump-ng to see all the access points (WiFi Networks) and associated clients that are within your wireless range and gather information about them.
WiFi Bands - 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz Frequencies7:54
In this lecture you will learn what are the 2 bands used on WiFi networks and how to use airodump-ng to capture data sent over these bands
Targeted Packet Sniffing10:30
In this lecture , we shall learn how to launch airodump-ng on a specific AP , and store all packets in a capture file.
Deauthentication Attack (Disconnecting Devices From Networks)8:09
Deauthentication attacks allow us to disconnect (disassociate) any client that is connected to any network that is within our wifi range even if the network uses encryption (such as WEP/WPA/WPA2) and even if we do not know the encryption key (the WiFi password).

Gaining Access Introduction1:09
In this section we shall learn how to break WEP/WPA/WPA2 encryption and determine the network key.
Theory Behind Cracking WEP Encryption5:47
This lecture explains the weaknesses in WEP encryption and how we can use these weaknesses to break it and hack Wi-Fi networks that use it.
WEP Cracking Basics6:17
In this video we shall learn the basics of cracking WEP encryption and you'll learn how to hack an active Wi-Fi network that uses WEP.
Fake Authentication Attack6:45
In this lecture we shall learn the theory behind cracking WEP encrypted APs with no or idle clients.

To do this we will inject packets in the traffic, but before we can do that we need to authenticate our wifi card with the target AP so that it does not ignore our requests as AP's only accept packets from associated devices, therefore we shall learn how to fake authenticate our wifi card with the target AP so that it starts accepting packets from us.
ARP Request Replay Attack6:09
This method can be used to crack idle or clientless AP's .

In this method , after successfully associating with the target AP , we will wait for an ARP packet , we will then capture this packet and inject it into the traffic , this will force the AP to generate a new ARP packet with a new IV , we capture this new packet and inject into the traffic again , this process is repeated until the number of IV's captured is sufficient enough to crack the key.

Introduction to WPA and WPA2 Cracking3:42
This is an introduction to WPA/WPA2 cracking , we shall learn the main difference between WPA2 and WEP and why WPA2 is more difficult to crack.
Hacking WPA & WPA2 Without a Wordlist8:16
In this lecture we shall learn how to exploit the WPS feature to crack WPA and WPA2 encrypted AP's without a wordlist attack and without the need to any connected clients.
Capturing The Handshake6:49
In this lecture we shall learn how to capture the handshake from the target AP.
Creating a Wordlist7:33
To crack WPA/WPA2 we need to use a wordlist, you can download ready wordlists from the internet or create your own as shown in this lecture.
Cracking WPA & WPA2 Using a Wordlist Attack6:26
In this lecture we will use the wordlist created in the previous lecture to crack the WPA2 key using aircrack-ng.

Installing Windows As a Virtual Machine5:43
In this lecture you will learn how to set up a virtual Windows machine to try and hack into it to practice penetration testing.
Installing Windows as a Virtual Machine on Apple Silicon4:53
Discovering Devices Connected to the Same Network8:04
Information gathering is one of the most important steps in penetration testing. In this lecture we will learn how to use netdiscover to discover devices connected to the same network as us, we will be able to find their IP and MAC address.
Gathering Sensitive Info About Connected Devices (Device Name, Ports, etc.)6:45
In this lecture we shall learn how to use zenmap (the GUI for nmap) to discover all connected devices and gather detailed information about these devices, such as their operating system, open ports and even services using these ports.
Gathering More Sensitive Info (Running Services, Operating System, etc.)8:08
In this lecture you'll learn how to use Zenmap to gather even more information such as exact programs running on each open port, the operating system and more!

Requirements

Basic IT Skills
No Linux, programming or hacking knowledge required.
Computer with a minimum of 6GB ram/memory.
Operating System: Windows / Apple Mac OS / Linux.
For WiFi cracking (10 lectures ONLY) - Wireless adapter that supports monitor mode (more info provided in the course).

Description

Last Update: June 2024

Welcome this comprehensive Ethical Hacking course! This course assumes you have NO prior knowledge! It starts with you from scratch and takes you step-by-step teaching you how to hack systems like black-hat hackers and secure them like security experts!

This course is highly practical but it won't neglect the theory; we'll start with ethical hacking basics, breakdown the different penetration testing fields and install the needed software (on Windows, Linux and Apple Mac OS), then we'll dive and start hacking straight away. You'll learn everything by example, by analysing and exploiting different systems such as networks, cloud servers, clients, websites, etc. No boring dry lectures.

The course is divided into a number of sections, each section covers a penetration testing / hacking field, in each of these sections you'll first learn how the target system works, the weaknesses of this system, and how to practically exploit theses weaknesses to hack this system. As we do this I will also introduce you to different hacking and security concepts, tools and techniques. Everything will be taught through examples and hands-on practicals, there will be no useless or boring lectures!

All the techniques in this course are practical and work against real systems, you'll understand the whole mechanism of each technique first, then you'll learn how to use it to hack the target system . By the end of the course you'll be able to modify these techniques to launch more powerful attacks, and adopt them to suit different situations and different scenarios .

By the end of the course you will have a strong foundation in most hacking or penetration testing fields and you'll also learn how to detect, prevent and secure systems and yourself from the discussed attacks.

The course is divided into four main sections:

1. Network Hacking - This section will teach you how to hack and secure both wired & wireless networks. First, you will learn network basics, how they work, and how devices communicate with each other. Then it will branch into three sub sections:

Pre-connection attacks: in this subsection you'll learn a number of attacks that can be executed without connecting to the target network and without the need to know the network password; you'll learn how to gather information about the networks around you, discover connected devices, and control connections (deny/allow devices from connecting to networks).
Gaining Access: Now that you gathered information about the networks around you, in this subsection you will learn how to crack the key and get the password to your target network whether it uses WEP, WPA or even WPA2 .
Post Connection attacks: Now that you have the key, you can connect to the target network, in this subsection you will learn a number of powerful techniques that allow you to gather comprehensive information about the connected devices, see anything they do on the internet (such as login information, passwords, visited urls, images, videos, etc.), redirect requests, inject evil code in loaded pages and much more! You will also learn how to create a fake WiFi network or a honeypot, attract users to connect to it and use all of the above techniques against the connected clients.

2. Gaining Access - In this section you will learn two main approaches to gain remote access or hack computer systems:

Server Side Attacks: In this subsection you will learn how to gain full access to computer systems without user interaction. You will learn how to gather useful information about a target system such as the operating system, open ports, installed services, then use this information to discover weaknesses / vulnerabilities and exploit them to gain full control over the target. Finally you will learn how to automatically scan servers for vulnerabilities and generate different types of reports with your discoveries.
Client Side Attacks - If the target system does not contain any weaknesses then the only way to hack it is by interacting with the users, in this subsection you'll learn how to get the target user to install a backdoor on their system without even realising, this is done by hijacking software updates or backdooring downloads on the fly. This subsection also teaches you how to use social engineering to hack secure systems, so you'll learn how to gather comprehensive information about system users such as their social accounts, friends, their mails, etc. You'll learn how to create trojans by backdooring normal files (such as an image or a pdf) and use the gathered information to spoof emails so they appear as if they're sent from the target's friend, boss or any email account they're likely to interact with, to social engineer them into running your trojan.

3. Post Exploitation - In this section you will learn how to interact with the systems you compromised so far. You’ll learn how to access the file system (read/write/upload/execute), maintain your access, spy on the target (capture key strikes, turn on the webcam, take screenshots, etc.) and even use the target computer as a pivot to hack other systems.

4. Website / Web Application Hacking - In this section you will learn how websites work, how to gather information about a target website (such as website owner, server location, used technologies, etc.) and how to discover and exploit the following dangerous vulnerabilities to hack websites:

Information Disclosure.
File Upload.
Code Execution.
Local File Inclusion.
Remote File Inclusion.
SQL Injection.
Cross Site Scripting (XSS).

Throughout the course you'll learn how to use use the following tools to achieve the above:

VMware.
Kali Linux
Nmap.
Bettercap.
Wireshark.
OWASP Zap.
Metasploit.
Nexpose.
SQLmap.
Maltego.
Veil Framework.
Crunch.
Netdiscover.
Zenmap.
arpspoof.
Evilgrade.
The Backdoor Factory.
BeEF.
Dirb.
Knockpy.
Netcat.
Aircrack-ng suite .
- Airmon-ng .
- Airodump-ng .
- Aireplay-ng .
- Aircrack-ng .

At the end of each section you will learn how to detect, prevent and secure systems and yourself from the discussed attacks.

Checkout the curriculum and the course teaser for more info!

With this course you'll get 24/7 support, so if you have any questions you can post them in the Q&A section and we'll respond to you within 15 hours.

Notes:

This course is created for educational purposes only, all the attacks are launched in my own lab or against systems that I have permission to test.
This course is totally a product of Zaid Sabih & zSecurity and no other organisation is associated with it or a certification exam. Although, you will receive a Course Completion Certification from Udemy, apart from that NO OTHER ORGANISATION IS INVOLVED.

Who this course is for:

Anybody interested in learning ethical hacking / penetration testing
Anybody interested in learning how hackers hack computer systems
Anybody interested in learning how to secure systems from hackers

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Course Introduction3 lectures • 13min

Setting up a Hacking Lab6 lectures • 47min

Linux Basics2 lectures • 15min

Network Hacking5 lectures • 29min

Network Hacking - Pre Connection Attacks4 lectures • 33min

Network Hacking - Gaining Access - WEP Cracking5 lectures • 26min

Network Hacking - Gaining Access - WPA / WPA2 Cracking5 lectures • 33min

Network Hacking - Gaining Access - Security2 lectures • 10min

Network Hacking - Post Connection Attacks1 lecture • 2min

Network Hacking - Post-Connection Attacks - Information Gathering5 lectures • 34min

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