Hello everybody and welcome to the beginning of our new Python for ethical hacking course. In this Udemy course we will be coding our own penetration testing tools. If this is your first ethical hacking course, I’ll be sure to make this course beginner friendly, and explain everything as we go. For a limited time, you can enroll in the complete course on Udemy for only $9.99!
We’ll start off by installing our environment and setting up our Kali Linux machine. If you are not a beginner and have watched other ethical hacking courses, you probably already have the Kali Linux machine installed. If so, you can skip the introductory part and go right into the coding section.
What we will be doing in this course, as it says, is we will be coding our own tools that we will use for ethical hacking attacks. Most ethical hacking courses consist of scanning, enumeration, exploitation, backdoors, keyloggers, bruteforcers and many other attacks on the websites. There are many other activities covered as well, but most are performed with tools created by other people. What we want to do is actually code some of our own tools and make them useful for our future attacks. We will begin with coding a port scanner. We will try to create something similar to nmap. We will start off our attack by scanning the port, scanning the target and checking out the banners for the versions of software running on the target system. Then we will proceed to actual exploitation and attacking, brute forcing SSH, brute forcing FTP and on other protocols as well.
We will also code a reverse shell. If you’re coming from my previous ethical hacking course, you probably already have an idea of what a reverse shell is, since I covered it in that course. We will build off of what we coded in the previous course, as well as add additional functionality in this one. Now if you didn’t take my previous course don’t worry. I will cover everything in great detail for those of you who unfamiliar with both ethical hacking and Python.
I will not actually be showing you how to code in Python. This is not a Python course. I will, however, explain everything as we go through and code our own tools. Since teaching you how to code in Python would consume too much of our time, I will explain to you everything that we are doing in great detail. So, don’t worry even if you don’t have any previous experience. You can still attend this course and learn a lot from it.
Now, as I said, we will begin by creating our virtual environment. We will use VirtualBox and Kali Linux for this purpose. The Kali Linux machine is where we will run our attacks, where we will code our own tools, where we will compile them and run them.
You can code on Windows or MAC if you wish. If you have Python installed on another system, you can actually code all of these tools in that environment. If we run into something that can’t be run on a Windows environment, I will make sure to actually say that before we start coding. I would advise you to download Kali Linux if you wish to follow this course. For those of you who don’t have it installed, I will show you how you can download and setup a Kali Linux machine.
So, that’ll be about it for this introductory post. I hope you will enjoy this course and I hope you learn a lot from it. Please use it for your own purposes, as long as they are on the legal side. Please don’t use this information for anything that isn’t legal, such as scanning targets you do not own, attacking targets you do not have permission to attack, or basically anything that is illegal.
So, that would be about it for this post. I hope I see you in the next lecture where I’ll show you how you can download VirtualBox, the newest version, and Kali Linux 2019. I hope you enjoy this preview video and I hope I see you in the course!
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