Ethical Hacking
Ethical Hacking Fundamentals: Authorization Is the Foundation
Understand what makes hacking 'ethical' — and why authorization is the line between security testing and a crime.
Read →Types of Hackers and Testing Approaches
Understand white/black/grey hat, and the difference between black-box, white-box and grey-box testing.
Read →Rules of Engagement and Scope Documents
Learn what actually goes into the document that legally authorizes a penetration test.
Read →The Penetration Testing Methodology
Learn the standard phase sequence every engagement follows, and why order matters.
Read →Passive Reconnaissance: Gathering Information Without Touching the Target
Learn how testers build a target picture using only public information.
Read →Active Reconnaissance: Direct but Careful Interaction
Understand the step between passive research and full scanning — and why it's higher risk.
Read →Common OSINT and Footprinting Tools
A practical overview of the tools testers use during the reconnaissance phase.
Read →Network Scanning Fundamentals with Nmap
Understand port states and the most common scan types, using nmap as the reference tool.
Read →Service Enumeration: Turning Open Ports Into Detail
Learn how testers dig into what scanning found — versions, shares, and usernames.
Read →Vulnerability Assessment Basics
Learn how enumerated service detail gets matched against known weaknesses — before any exploitation.
Read →Exploitation Framework Fundamentals
Understand how exploitation frameworks like Metasploit are structured, and why they're used only in authorized lab or engagement scope.
Read →Password Attacks and Defenses
Understand brute force vs dictionary attacks conceptually, and why hashing/salting and MFA are the real defense.
Read →Web Application Security Basics: The OWASP Top 10
Get an interview-ready overview of the most common web application vulnerability categories.
Read →SQL Injection Fundamentals
Understand why SQL injection happens, see the classic textbook example, and learn the actual fix.
Read →Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Basics
Understand the three XSS types and why output encoding — not just input filtering — is the real fix.
Read →Penetration Test Reporting: The Most Skipped, Most Important Phase
Learn what makes a finding useful to a client — impact, evidence, and remediation, not just a vulnerability name.
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