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Training targets: vulnerable applications built for learning

11/12/2026

Ethical Hacker & Cyber Defence

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Why you need a legal training target You now have a working lab. You have virtualisation software, a security-focused Linux virtual machine, snapshots to undo your mistakes, and network isolation that keeps your lab apart from your home network. One ...

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Training targets: vulnerable applications built for learning
11/12/2026
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Why you need a legal training target You now have a working lab. You have virtualisation software, a security-focused Linux virtual machine, snapshots to undo your mistakes, and network isolation that keeps your lab apart from your home network. One ...
Isolating your lab: the training machine cut off from your network
11/10/2026
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Why isolation is the rule of the game You now have virtualisation software, a security-focused Linux virtual machine and snapshots to undo your mistakes. One question remains: what can this machine reach? By default, a new virtual machine (VM) is usu...
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Snapshots: going back after a mistake
11/9/2026
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What a snapshot is and why you need one You have created your first Linux virtual machine (VM) in your virtualisation software. You will soon break it, and that is normal. You will install the wrong package, misconfigure the network, delete a system ...
Choose and download a security-focused Linux distribution
11/8/2026
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What a security-focused Linux distribution is You now have virtualisation software installed on your computer. The next step is to choose the operating system (OS) that will run inside your first virtual machine (VM). In cybersecurity, that OS is alm...
Virtualisation: running several computers inside yours
11/6/2026
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What virtualisation is and why your lab depends on it In the previous activity, you saw why an ethical hacker always trains in a lab and never on a real system. You now need the technology that makes this lab possible on a single laptop: virtualisati...
Why a lab: training without ever touching a real system
11/6/2026
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The lab answers the authorisation problem In the previous activities, you learned one central rule. The only difference between a penetration test and an attack is written authorisation from the owner of the system, within a defined scope. This rule ...
Cybersecurity jobs: attacking, defending, investigating, auditing
11/4/2026
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Four families, one shared incident In your previous activities, you followed an incident from start to finish: someone attacks, someone detects and responds, someone investigates, and the organisation then fixes its weaknesses. Each of these moments ...
Scope and rules of engagement: what you are allowed to test
11/3/2026
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From authorisation to scope In the previous activities, you learned that the only difference between an ethical hacker and an attacker is authorisation. Authorisation alone is not enough, though. An authorisation always applies to something precise: ...
The legal framework: what the law forbids and what written authorisation allows
10/30/2026
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Why the law is your first tool In the previous activity, you saw that the only thing separating an ethical hacker from a criminal is authorisation. This lesson explains what that means in law. The commands, tools and techniques used by a penetration ...
Ethical hacker: the difference between testing and attacking is authorisation
10/30/2026
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Same techniques, opposite status In the previous activities you studied attackers, their motivations, attack families and how an incident unfolds from intrusion to investigation. Here is the key idea of this lesson. An ethical hacker uses exactly the...

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