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What a CTF is, its formats, challenge categories with examples, where to practise all year, a starter toolkit and a 4-week plan to play your first competition.

Beat OverTheWire Bandit levels 0 to 15: what each level teaches, hints and the Linux commands that solve it, without spoiling the passwords.

find, grep, awk, ss, sudo -l, nc, base64, tmux… Linux commands for ethical hacking organized by task, with real examples and what to look for in the output.

Hands-on Binwalk guide: signature scans, recursive extraction, entropy, carving with dd, exploring the SquashFS rootfs and using it in CTF forensics.

A week-by-week plan to learn ethical hacking from scratch in about six months: what to study, which resources to use and how to know you are ready for the next phase.

A realistic four-phase path from zero to your first offensive certification, with the specific resources for each stage.

What ethical hacking is, how it differs from a real attack, what a pentester's job looks like and the sensible first steps if you are just starting.

The ethical hacking tools worth learning first, ordered by audit phase: what each one does, a usage example and in what order to master them.

How to install Kali Linux in a virtual machine, what to do right after booting it and the basic commands you need to start practising ethical hacking.

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