If you are old enough and skilled enough to have completed the code yourself, read this list.
It is not for anyone under 13, and the skills you learn can land you in jail if used incorrectly. However, learning them gives you a major advantage in the future, especially if you can’t afford university. This list will continue to grow as I educate myself and update this entry with my already achieved certifications, labs, and more. If I did it, you can too.
This is just one-fifth of the pages of the people who have taught me what I know. I will continue to expand this so you can learn what I have. The video list contains:
- 389 videos
- 70 courses with certificates
- 19 badges
- 11 without
This list includes coding IDEs, packet tracer, VMs, self-hosts, etc. The home labs count comes to about roughly 3000 or close to it, maybe more once this list is finished. Obviously, catching up with my reporting admin, this will contain links to LinkedIn profiles, WhatsApp channels, Instagram accounts, Discord servers, apps, documents, completion reports, and so on. Do not go anywhere else in this account unless you have at least 5 badges or certificates and 10 labs I have recommended, or you may end up with broken equipment.
(hosted), Labs and VMs (local) Actual hacking sites that are free to learn oabs under certain conditions (like 2 hours per week on a Virtual Machine) Or local hosted options:
- Hack The Box (Starting Point path, Crest CRT path watch professor 37 here)
- TryHackMe (SOC Analyst path)
- VulnHub (All machines)
- DVWA (Complete)
- Pwned Labs (watch professor 38 when you get here.)
- PentesterLabs
- CyberWarfare Labs (Freebies especially the APT recreations.)
- Labex
- Fast food hacking site
- bug bounty hunter training
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Advanced XSS Lab (I built this.)
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Clijacking lab (I built this too.)
Others:
- Damn Broken Web Application
- Juice Shop
- Metasploitable2
- crAPI
- vAPI
- Aurora agent lite
- Velociraptor
- Wireshark
- You can download some from source forge etc find a home lab or build some yourself.
Free educational sites; they also-rans have paid products, so be careful when navigating. Make sure the course price says free. If you need help, ask a grown-up; I don’t think your parents will mind you wanting extra homework. I never had any issues with content access with these courses.
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APISecU (Penetration Testing, Attached Cars and Fleets, Fundamentals)
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ISC2 (C|C)
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Simplilearn (CISSP, Data Science in R, CCNA Fundamentals)
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EC-Council (Introduction to Dark Web Operation)
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Cisco NetAcad (Ethical Hacking and CCNA)
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Harvard Online (CS50 no cert)
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MIT Online (Computer Science Fundamentals no cert)
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Microsoft Learn (Azure Network Ninja)
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Google Cloud Learn (Introduction to Generative AI, Google Cloud Architect, Google Cloud Practitioner)
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Skills For All (CCNA7)
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LinkedIn Learning (Loads)
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ITMasters/Sturt University free short courses (The pentesting lab comes with a .ova custom machine its pretty basic but still fun.)
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Code Institute (5-Day Coding Challenge Repository included)
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Network Chuck Academy (All certs)
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Anti-Siphon Training (Mitre ATT&CK and other resources)
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CourseStack - Red Team Leaders (WRTO_API, AV/EDR Evasion. Once you have completed these find the tutors LinkedIn and follow through the C2, APT rec and windows red team labs walkthroughs available via video and the exercises here: Red Team Exercises
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SecOps Group Mock Exams Running through these will prove how far you've come and when you ace the professional and expert level mock exams like: (CAPenX) and (C-AI/MLPen) Watch out for the giveaways I got my CNSP free in one.
- AWS Learning
- Azure Learn
- PowerShell Learn
- Learn to Rust (Awesome has a book as a logo)
If you get a certificate or a badge in some basic courses, check out these YouTube channels. They are my personal list of YouTube educators with educational videos and follow-along home labs that are all extremely successful in their individual fields. The order is not relevant.