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Ethical Hacking

🛡️ Ethical Hacking Learning Roadmap

Level 1 — Foundations

1. How the Internet works

2. TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS

3. Linux fundamentals

4. Windows fundamentals

5. Networking: IP, ports, protocols, routing

6. Command line & Bash

7. Basic Python scripting

8. Git and basic security concepts

Level 2 — Cybersecurity Fundamentals

• CIA Triad

• Authentication & authorization

• Encryption vs hashing

• Vulnerabilities, exploits & CVEs

• Firewalls, proxies and VPNs

• Security logging

• Common attack types and defenses

Level 3 — Ethical Hacking

• Reconnaissance

• Port/service discovery

• Vulnerability assessment

• Web application security

• Password/security testing

• Network security testing

• Privilege escalation concepts

• Post-exploitation and reporting

Level 4 — Web Application Security
Learn the OWASP Top 10, including:

• SQL Injection

• XSS

• CSRF

• Broken access control

• Authentication vulnerabilities

• SSRF

• File-upload vulnerabilities

• Security misconfiguration

Level 5 — Practical Labs

You should practice only on systems you own or are explicitly authorized to test.

A good home lab could contain:

Your Computer
     │
     ├── Kali Linux
     │
     ├── Metasploitable
     │
     ├── OWASP Juice Shop
     │
     └── DVWA

You can then safely practice reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, privilege escalation, and remediation.

🧰 Tools to Learn

Start with:

Area	Tools
Linux	Kali Linux
Networking	Wireshark
Recon	Nmap
Web testing	Burp Suite
Vulnerability testing	OpenVAS
Exploitation	Metasploit
Password auditing	Hashcat
Traffic testing	tcpdump
Scripting	Python + Bash
Web labs	OWASP Juice Shop / DVWA

📅 A practical 12-week plan

Weeks 1–2: Linux + networking
Weeks 3–4: Security fundamentals + Python
Weeks 5–6: Reconnaissance + Nmap + Wireshark
Weeks 7–8: Web security + Burp Suite + OWASP Top 10
Weeks 9–10: Metasploit + privilege escalation concepts
Weeks 11–12: Full penetration-testing labs + professional reports

Since I consider you already have experience with web development, Laravel, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and server deployment, you actually have a useful advantage: we can spend less time on basic programming and focus more heavily on web application penetration testing, API security, Linux/server security, and cloud security.

Here you can learn this as a Day 1 → Day 90 Ethical Hacking course, with each day containing theory + commands + a safe lab exercise + questions/assignment.