He got his lambo and his bag and left. Can't blame the guy for selling, I probably would too - we're all in it for money, one way or another. There's only so much you can care about people refusing and actively hurting themselves by ignoring the basics of IT and trying to jump straight into hacking. If someone offered me 10 mil for my company, I'd probably take it, invest it, and live off dividends and pursue my hobbies and maybe go back to work if I get bored. More on reddit.com

The course says you don't need any background in IT,but I beg to differ. He may teach the concepts but you'll end up having a lot of questions if you don't know the basics of Networking or Linux or familiarity with running Linux. There will be roadblocks while setting up your hacking environment (whether to use a bridged NAT adapter or to use a Host-only VM) because he doesn't explicitly mention these things. You also might get errors in your bash console that you may not be familiar with and will find difficult to troubleshoot. So I'd say,familiarity with Linux and basic networking knowledge (OSI/TCP stack,IP addresses,routing,ARP,MAC) are some prerequisites for this course. Of course,just my humble opinion :) More on reddit.com

To learn about ethical hacking from scratch I would purchase this course on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/practical-ethical-hacking/.

Heath Adams is the instructor and he goes by TheCyberMentor on all of his platforms. I have been following him since day one and he just created this amazing course. He also provides free instructional videos on YouTube and Twitch. Check the free sources out first to see if you are interested but I would definitely buy his paid course as well. He provides in-depth instruction on Python in his course. You could also supplement by purchasing other Python courses if you want to get more in-depth with coding but TheCyberMentor courses provide great information on that also.

Before you purchase anything you should definitely research a lot of free options out there on the Internet. If you want more in-depth knowledge then you should look into paid courses.

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Udemy:

Try the courses of Zaid Sabih, they’re really good and helped me a lot when I started, just to get a basic understanding. He is one of the few whose not either click to bait like you mentioned, or too much up in space for a beginners level. For Metasploit and Web-App Penetration testing, there’s a course by Oak-Academy or Muhammad Aydin (?) that are also really good in my opinion.

HTB:

After that, you can also try hackthebox.eu premium (10£/~12-15€) and do retired boxes with Ippsec as a guide on YouTube and do like a “hack along “.

Free:

• You can also try Hackersploit on YouTube for free.

• Vulnhub has some great machines to download and there are many people who posted a walkthrough (although if you’re at the 0 level, I would recommend getting some background knowledge first)

• There are some hacking games like overthewire.com (?) not sure about them tho, never tried it myself

• Try learning a programming language, that’s always very handy and something very valuable to have up in your sleeve. I personally recommend python, as it’s easy to learn for beginners, doesn’t have all this mess with the parenthesis and you can use it really a lot for hacking, networking but also everything else.

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