Linux Essentials for Ethical Hackers - Full InfoSec Course
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In this Linux course, you will learn the 20% you need to know to be efficient with Linux. This course will teach all the common Linux skills used in cyber-security and ethical hacking. HackerSploit developed this course. Check out their channel: https://www.youtube.com/HackerSploit This course applies to almost all versions of Linux. It does not cover Linux installation. Watch this video to learn how to install Arch Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RxT4hjLo3g ⭐️ Course Contents ⭐️ ⌨️ (0:00:00) Introduction ⌨️ (0:01:56) Useful keyboard Shortcuts ⌨️ (0:08:52) File Management & Manipulation ⌨️ (0:32:18) File & Directory Permissions ⌨️ (0:55:22) File & Directory Ownership ⌨️ (0:59:35) grep & piping ⌨️ (1:06:53) Finding Files With Locate ⌨️ (1:14:36) Enumerating Distribution & Kernel Information ⌨️ (1:23:30) Find + OverTheWire Bandit Challenge ⌨️ (1:39:36) Shells & Bash Configuration ⌨️ (1:49:53) Disk Usage ⌨️ (1:58:41) File Compression & Archiving With tar ⌨️ (2:05:45) Users And Groups & Permissions With Visudo ⌨️ (2:24:52) Networking (ifconfig, netstat & netdiscover) ⌨️ (2:40:46) TOR & Proxychains ⌨️ (2:47:28) Service And Process Management (HTOP & systemctl) ⌨️ (3:04:58) SSH And SSH Security ⌨️ (3:20:56) Curl Fundamentals ⌨️ (3:36:40) UFW Firewall (Uncomplicated Firewall) ⌨️ (3:59:48) How To Clear Tracks & Logs On Linux ⌨️ (4:17:43) SSH Brute Force Protection With Fail2Ban -- 🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: 👾 Wong Voon jinq 👾 hexploitation 👾 Katia Moran 👾 BlckPhantom 👾 Nick Raker 👾 Otis Morgan 👾 DeezMaster 👾 AppWrite -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp
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