Formal ethical hacking courses are ideal for on-the-job training in a specific niche. Alternatively, many hackers advocate self-learning. The advantage of this is that you get to discover your field of particular interest. Below are some other free resources, tutorials, hands-on challenges, and articles on ethical hacking.
- Hacking Tutorial – Access this site with care; some of these tips and tricks are questionable, if not downright illegal. The reason we include it is that one of the responsibilities of an ethical hacker is to know what their evil counterpart is up to.
- Hack This Site – A free, safe, and legal training ground for hackers to test and expand their hacking skills. Includes an IRC channel where you can hook up with fellow white hatters and ask questions.
- Exploit Exercises – As the name suggests, see if you can spot code vulnerabilities in a series of advanced hacking challenges.
- Crypto Pals – Eight sets of crypto challenges. You don’t need to know about crypto but you should be familiar with at least one mainstream coding language. You need to work through all 48 exercises as some code is used in later challenges.
- Vuln Hub – This site offers a really fun way to practice your skills in hands-on workshops, for example, download a custom VM and then try to obtain root level access.
- YouTube – Perfect for the lazy ethical hacker; all you need is popcorn. Simply search “ethical hacking course.”
- Tutorials Point – The Ethical Hacking Tutorial provides a good overview for beginners.
- Open Security Training – The Hacking Techniques and Intrusion Detection course is under a Creative Commons License so you can use it to train employees in-house. All the materials are supplied; just add an instructor. The course creator is available for on-site training.
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