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Practical hacking and pentesting course for beginners

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Overview

Learn practical hacking and pentesting with a step by step guide. A hands on approach to learn practical ethical hacking

What you'll learn:
  • Hacking and bypassing Windows login Passwords
  • Cracking Passwords for word, excel, Zip and Rar Files
  • How to Speed up password cracking with GPU based attacks
  • How to Install and use Password Cracking tools in Windows Environment
  • How to Extract Windows passwords from RAM with Mimikatz
  • Best cracking and hacking tools on both windows and Kali Linux
  • How to Hack Android Devices with Kali Linux
  • Hack & secure both WiFi & wired networks
  • Hacking Wireless Networks with modern tools
  • Web Hacking Basics
  • Practical Bug Bounty with DVWA
  • Hack Windows with Metasploit Framework
  • How to hack Windows and linux machines over the network
  • Create your own Hacking Lab in a Virtual Environment (Quick and Easy Way)
  • Install & use Kali Linux - a penetration testing operating system in an easy and efficient manner
  • How to scan targets efficiently to gather more information about the target
  • How to perform vulnerability assessment of a target
  • Analysing traffic with Wireshark

*The ultimate Practical Hacking and Pentesting Guide for Beginners. Learn Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing! Learn to use real techniques and tools that are used by black hat hackers*

Welcome to this comprehensive course on practical hacking and pentesting. In this course, you'll learn techniques and tools to crack Windows passwords, recover Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel Passwords), hack wireless networks, hack Android devices, bug bounty and practical pentesting techniques to hack your targets over the network. This course assumes you have NO prior knowledge in hacking and cracking, and by the end of it, you'll be at a comfortable level, being able to start with your pentesting journey skilled with the basic toolset

The course is a practical guide and only focuses on the practical stuff leaving out Python or other theoretical stuff that you find in other courses to fill up the content. More than 6 hours of practical hacking and pentesting stuff with real-world guides. You'll learn everything by example and practical guides, so we'll never have any dry boring theoretical lectures.

Each practical lecture is accompanied by a free pdf presentation explaining the attack which can be downloaded and used as a quick reference.

The Quick Breakdown of the content is as follows:-

  • How to Install Kali Linux in a virtual environment in a quick and easy way.

  • How to break into Windows passwords.

  • How to crack WIFI passwords.

  • How to crack office files passwords.

  • How to hack machines(both windows and Linux) over the network.

  • Web Hacking and Bug Bounty for Beginners.

  • How to hack Android devices

  • How to sharpen your skill with practice on Hack the box and Try hack me free machines.

The Major Modules include.

1. Windows Password cracking and bypassing passwords to gain access

After finishing the module, you will also be acquainted with the best free password-cracking tools and techniques that you can implement in your future learning path. We also discuss some services and tools that can help you to speed up the office password-cracking process.

The Quick Breakdown of the content is as follows:-

    • How to break Windows Passwords.

    • How to Hack into Windows without cracking passwords.

    • How to use Hashcat for faster GPU-based Attacks.

    • How to use Hashcat from Windows to crack the Passwords.

    • How to extract passwords from RAM with MimiKatz.

2. Wifi Hacking

Wifi is everywhere and learning the tools to crack and hack into the wifi is one of the most important skillset in any hackers arsenal.

The quick breakdown of the content is as follows:

  • How to hack WPA2 wifi networks with old aircrack utility.

  • How to capture handshakes with Hcxdump tools.

  • How to crack wifi password with fast GPU based cracked- Hashcat.

  • How to crack wifi passwords with single command in an automated manner.

  • How to crack wifi networks from Windows.

  • What are the best GUI based tools to crack passwords.

3. Office Files (Word, powerpoint, excel)and RAR/ ZIP files password cracking

What about learning to break into the most important and used file types. The module is perfect for it. The Quick Breakdown of the module content is as follows:-

  • How to password protect word, excel and PowerPoint Files.

  • How to use John to crack office passwords on Kali Linux.

  • How to use Hashcat for faster GPU-based Attacks.

  • How to install John the ripper and Hashcat on Windows.

  • How to crack office passwords from Windows without Kali Linux.

  • How to Unlock read-only Excel Files.

  • How to remove sheet and workbook protection from Excel sheets.

  • How to remove read-only restriction from Word and PowerPoint files.

  • How to remove passwords from office documents with free online password recovery service.

  • How to use Paid tools to crack office passwords.

  • How to remove passwords from very old word documents with Guaword utility.

4. Practical pentesting and network attacks

In this module, we learn about how to go with practical pentesting and hacking machines over the network The Quick Breakdown of the module content is as follows:-

  • What is Metasploit and how to hack Windows with it.

  • How to scan the targets to extract maximum information.

  • How to perform a vulnerability assessment of a target with automated tools.

  • How to extract information from a target, start a keylogger and take screenshots of a target after gaining a foothold.

  • How to practice pentesting for free.

5. Practical Android Hacking and Pentesting

In this module, we learn about how to hack into Android devices. The module content contains the following

  • How to setup Android VM inside VMware.

  • How to hack Android devices with payload created through msfvenom.

  • How to hack Android devices with USB debugging enabled over adb.

6. Web Hacking and Bug Bounty for Beginners

In this comprehensive module, you'll embark on a thrilling journey to master web hacking techniques and dive into the world of bug bounty hunting. ??

Here's what you'll learn:

  • Dirbusting Tutorial: Uncover hidden directories and files using the powerful dirb tool, gaining access to potential vulnerabilities.

  • DVWA Challenge Walkthroughs: Step-by-step guidance through various challenges in Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA), enhancing your practical skills.

  • Exploiting Common Web Vulnerabilities: Discover and exploit common web vulnerabilities like SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and more.

  • Web Application Reconnaissance: Master the art of gathering intelligence and recon techniques specific to web applications.

  • Bug Bounty Essentials: Learn the fundamentals of bug bounty hunting, including how to identify, report, and validate vulnerabilities.

  • Defensive Techniques: Understand countermeasures and defensive strategies to safeguard web applications against attacks.

Don't miss this opportunity to embark on a thrilling journey into the world of web hacking and bug bounty hunting. Enroll now and unlock your potential in web security! ??

We guarantee you this is one of the most comprehensive online courses on hacking and pentesting for beginners which is focused on only practical stuff

Notes:

  • This course is created for educational purposes only and all the attacks are launched in my own lab or against systems that I have permission to test. The instructor is not linked to any tool or service mentioned in the course in any capacity.


Taught by

Ammar Hassan

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