Description
Free Hacking Tools for Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking. This course is taught by Mehram Aydin, a renowned Udemy instructor, and introduces participants to free and widely used tools in the field of cybersecurity. The course is designed for a wide range of enthusiasts, from complete beginners to experts, and teaches practical skills from basic to advanced levels. Course topics include setting up a lab with Kali Linux and victim systems, using network scanning tools such as Wireshark and Nmap, working with the Nessus vulnerability scanner, and the Metasploit framework for exploitation. Password cracking tools such as Hydra and John the Ripper, data collection techniques with tools such as Multigo and Shadan, and hacking web applications with Burp Suite and Sqlamp are also covered. Part of the course covers social engineering attacks using tools such as SET and network layer attacks including ARP cache poisoning with Ethercap. The ultimate goal of this course is to train ethical hackers and increase the attractiveness of IT professionals’ careers by teaching them how to identify and prevent cyberattacks. It is important to emphasize that all training in this course is for educational purposes only and may be used with the necessary permission.
What you will learn
- Basics and concepts of ethical hacking:
- Understand that ethical hacking involves a hacker agreeing with an organization or individual to conduct a cyberattack on a system or network.
- Familiarity with the types of hackers, including white hat hackers, who are ethical and licensed hackers.
- The legality of ethical hacking due to having explicit permission to test a system’s vulnerabilities.
- The importance of ethical hacking as one of the best methods for testing a network and finding vulnerabilities.
- Understanding how penetration testing skills increase the value of an IT professional’s job.
- Penetration testing and its steps:
- Introduction to Penetration Testing as the process of attacking a company’s network to find and fix existing vulnerabilities.
- Understand the five different stages of penetration testing, the first of which is determining the objectives, scope, and testing methods.
- Familiarity with types of penetration testing, such as internal penetration testing for testing an organization’s internal network.
- Practical tools and techniques:
- Learn to use Nmap to identify the operating system and versions of services running on the target system.
- Understand the need to develop technical skills related to programming, in addition to basic computer skills and command line usage.
- Familiarity with key tools such as Wireshark (for network traffic interception), Metasploit Framework (MSF) (for exploitation), Nessus (for vulnerability scanning), and SQLMap.
- Mastery of password cracking tools such as Cain & Abel (for brute force and dictionary attacks) and John the Ripper.
- Using Hping for active scanning and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
- Perform a Ping Scan to enumerate network hosts.
- Introduction to the concepts of Port Scan, SYN Scan, and Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE).
- Familiarity with web application hacking tools such as Burp Suite and ZAP.
- Familiarity with social engineering and phishing tools such as the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET).
- Setting up the lab environment:
- How to install Kali Linux from an ISO file or VM image.
- How to set up victim systems including Metasploitable Linux, OWASP Broken Web Applications, and Windows operating systems.
- Understand that many hackers use Linux because it is a free and open-source OS.
This course is suitable for people who:
- People who want to start from scratch and move to a more advanced level.
- Incident Handling Team Leaders.
- People who want to take their hacking skills to the next level.
- Cyber Security Experts.
- People who want to enter the field of cybersecurity.
- System Administrators who are on the front lines of defending their systems and responding to attacks.
- Other security personnel who are first responders when systems are attacked.
- People who want to have a career in cybersecurity.
- Anyone who wants to perform penetration testing against Wi-Fi networks.
- Anyone who wants to be a White Hat Hacker in ethical hacking and penetration testing.
- People who want to start from scratch in Web Hacking and progress.
- Anyone who wants to learn ethical hacking.
Course details
- Publisher: Udemy
- Instructor: Muharrem AYDIN , OAK Academy Team
- Training level: Beginner to advanced
- Training duration: 8 hours and 15 minutes
Course syllabus as of 2025/10
Prerequisites for the Free Hacking Tools for Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking course
- 8 GB (Gigabytes) of RAM or higher (16 GB recommended) for ethical hacking and penetration testing
- 64-bit system processor is mandatory for ethical hacking course
- 20 GB or more disk space for ethical hacking and penetration testing course
- Enable virtualization technology on BIOS settings, such as “Intel-VTx”
- Modern Browsers like Google Chrome (latest), Mozilla Firefox (latest), Microsoft Edge (latest)
- All items referenced in this course are free
- A computer for installing all the free software and tools needed to practice
- A strong desire to understand hacker tools and techniques in ethical hacking
- Be able to download and install all the free software and tools needed to practice hacking
- A strong work ethic, willingness to learn and plenty of excitement about the back door of the digital world
- Nothing else! It’s just you, your computer and your ambition to get started today in penetration testing
Course images
Sample course video
Installation Guide
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Subtitles: English
Quality: 1080p
Download link
Downloadly
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File size
4.98 GB
