Go from Linux beginner to cybersecurity practitioner through hands-on lessons, network labs, packet analysis and Capture-The-Flag challenges.
hacker@hackerskool:~$ whoami future-security-engineer hacker@hackerskool:~$ cat mission.txt Learn. Experiment. Understand. Defend. hacker@hackerskool:~$ _
Start with Linux and work your way toward advanced lab challenges.
Start your HackerSkool training with the command-line, system, network and security skills used throughout the cyber range.
Understand TCP/IP well enough to recognize what is happening on a real network.
Learn professional reconnaissance against HackerSkool lab systems.
Learn one of the most important network discovery and auditing tools in cybersecurity.
Capture traffic and understand exactly what computers are saying to each other.
Learn intrusion detection with Snort and understand how network attacks are detected.
Attack deliberately vulnerable HackerSkool web applications and learn how the weaknesses are repaired.
Understand Wi-Fi security, wireless capture and defensive wireless auditing.
Study vulnerabilities by exploiting deliberately vulnerable HackerSkool machines.
Learn why compromised low-privilege accounts sometimes become administrator access.
Study how malicious software works using inert specimens, simulations and controlled analysis.
Investigate what happened after a simulated security incident.
Run complete authorized attack simulations against the HackerSkool cyber range.
Detect and stop the same behaviors studied in the red-team curriculum.
Combine Linux, networking, reconnaissance, packet analysis and exploitation concepts in HackerSkool challenges.
Understand Linux, networking and security fundamentals.
Practice concepts against intentionally vulnerable systems.
Learn how vulnerabilities are detected and repaired.
Complete CTF challenges and prove your skills.