Course Name: Intensive Ethical Hacking Series
Course Instructor: Zeal Vora
Overall Verdict: Stay Away
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Review: It seems the goal of this course is to start you at the very beginning, and then take you through the process all the way to more advanced topics in penetration testing. To be honest, there is a lot of introductory IT stuff in this course. For example the discussion on DNS should not be in this course IMO. This is something you should already know, before you start learning about Ethical Hacking. (BTW, I would strongly debate the instructor on how many types of DNS records there are, and Question and Answer are not 2 of them.)
Very tool focused, like the CEH. no discussion of programming, scripting, social engineering, etc. For the whole section on protocols and networking, we only opened Wireshark on the last lesson. Just saying.
Some favorite quotes:
"Hacking is not just about attacking the server. It is a 2 way process. one is breaking into the serve,r and the other is coming out of the server safely." --> no mention of trying to get data out. My assumption was this is what he instructor meant, but a beginner will not know this.
"Ethical hacking is not just about the point-to-click and the tool will hack into the network. it is about you trying to understand what exactly the tool does from the bottom up." --> in reality this just makes you an advanced script kiddie, IMO. Nothing about learning the network and infrastructure around you. Nothing about how to find the data that "you" the Ethical Hacker want to see, or how to get it out of the organization.
