LEARN
ETHICAL HACKING
FROM WORKING
PROFESSIONALS.
Read, watch — then attack. Safe lab, real vulnerabilities. XP, levels and skills that hold up at work.
READ. WATCH.
THEN ATTACK.
WATCH THE VIDEO
Topic walked through on screen — before you open the terminal. Short, no filler.
READ THE THEORY
Text, diagrams and code snippets. Just enough context before you crack open the lab.
BREAK THE LAB
In seconds, your own server runs a vulnerable app. Attack it freely — it is here to be broken.
CLIMB THE BOARD
XP, levels and a spot in the top 10. The board tracks who breaks the most — not who watches the most.
THE PLATFORM
WE WISHED FOR
WHEN WE STARTED.
Hakatemia was built by people who taught themselves to hack without anything like this — piece by piece, forum by forum, on their own time. This is the course track and community we wish we had then. Now it sits ready for you.
MEMBER STORIES
Words from our members.
Every solve banks XP.
Levels, badges and a top-10 leaderboard. The XP system tracks what you can actually do — not what you have watched.
- Solve tasks, climb levelsEvery cracked lab drops XP and pushes you toward the next level.
- Stack the skills, not just the pointsXP routes into real skills — SQLi, XSS, RCE, crypto — so you see where you are sharp and where you are not yet.
- Stack up against the restThe top-10 leaderboard tracks who breaks the most. A spot on it does not lie.
- Keep the streak aliveEvery day you solve something extends your streak. One missed day resets it.
- Earn the badgesSpecific challenges and milestones drop badges you do not get from watching videos.
The lab opens in your browser in seconds.
Terminal, Kali desktop or code editor — all inside your browser, no VPN or local install. Labs run in Finland, so latency stays out of the way when a reverse shell is calling back.
- Web-based terminalMost labs only need a shell. The xterm.js-based terminal runs straight in the browser — real-time, copy/paste working, even on a slow link.
- Kali desktopWhen you need Burp, ZAP or another GUI tool, you get a full Kali Linux desktop over a WebSocket-tunneled VNC — right in the tab, nothing to install.
- Code editor in the browserWhen a solve needs your own exploit, you write and run it in an editor that lives in the browser. No local setup, no "why does this not build on my machine".
The full path of one module.
On a regular platform you watch videos and read text. Same here — but here that is only the warmup. Hakatemia’s core is the lab: you attack real vulnerable targets and bank XP for every flag.
Klassinen virhe: käyttäjän syöte upotetaan sellaisenaan SQL-kyselyyn. Tutki kirjautumislomaketta ja löydä reitti admin-käyttäjän taakse ilman salasanaa.
Pura kirjautumislogiikka ja kaappaa flag{…} käyttäjätaulusta.
- 01Watch video.
Many courses or modules have a video where the topic is covered.
- 02Read material.
All modules include readable material consisting of text, images, questions, and exercises.
- 03Start lab task.
In seconds, your own server runs a vulnerable web app. Find and exploit freely — depending on the task you also get a Kali terminal in the browser for running tools and catching reverse shells.
- 04Use tools.
As a Hakatemia PRO member, you will also have access to Hakatemia tools that make it easier to find and exploit vulnerabilities.
- 05Enter flag on Hakatemia page.
When you complete a task, you will receive a flag from the lab environment. When you enter the flag on the Hakatemia page, you will earn experience points and progress in the course.
- 06Climb the leaderboard.
Hakatemia has a leaderboard that always lists the top ten hackers in Hakatemia with their levels and experience points.
