Don Donzal

“Hacking for Dummies” by Kevin Beaver
“The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing: Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Made Easy 2nd Edition”
by Patrick Engebretson
“Penetration Testing – A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking” by Georgia Weidman
PTSv4 Barebones Edition by eLearnSecurity that you have free access to by becoming a member…[Read more]

Without a doubt, you will need to get your networking fundamentals down. To answer your specific questions…

I’m not sure which Udemy course you mean, but Security+ is not what you want first if you’re looking at CompTIA. Look at their Network+ cert.

On the other hand, the free Penetration Testing Student course by eLS you received simply by…[Read more]

Registering on EH-Net triggers an automated email regarding the Free PTS. I’ve dealt with this issue several times, and often it’s as simple as it being in your spam folder. Sometimes a filter on the email server blocks it, too, and you won’t see it on your client (depending on how you access your email).

If this doesn’t work, we have some oth…[Read more]