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A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this comprehensive course, you will gain hands-on experience in ethical hacking by working through real Capture the Flag (CTF) exercises. You will learn how to set up and navigate through different virtual lab environments using tools like Kali Linux and VirtualBox. The course provides an immersive learning experience, where you will walk through the steps of recon, enumeration, gaining access, and exploiting vulnerabilities in real-world CTF challenges. As you progress through the course, you'll work with various CTFs such as Toppo, Lampiao, DC-1, and SickOS 1.1, each offering unique challenges in reconnaissance, exploitation, and post-exploitation. You'll understand how to identify attack vectors, perform privilege escalation, and execute exploits to gain root access. With practical demonstrations and lab preparations for each challenge, you will enhance your problem-solving skills and deepen your technical understanding of ethical hacking. This course is designed for aspiring cybersecurity professionals and ethical hackers who want to sharpen their skills in a hands-on, real-world scenario. Whether you're looking to boost your skills for penetration testing or CTF competitions, this course provides the tools you need. The content is suited for intermediate learners with some foundational knowledge of cybersecurity tools and techniques. By the end of the course, you will be able to set up virtual environments, perform reconnaissance, exploitation, and post-exploitation tasks, elevate privileges, and gain root access on various vulnerable systems in a CTF setting.