Ethical Hacking (DAT505)

This course covers the fundamental concepts of ethical hacking and penetration testing. The course will provide a strong foundation for students pursuing ethical hacking careers. The course covers footprinting and reconnaissance, scanning and enumeration, social engineering, denial of service attacks, and web application attacks. The course also covers cryptography, viruses and worms, and honeypots. Students will use Hack the Box or similar vulnerable machines to test their skills.

Knowledge

The course will give you a good understanding of the key concepts and vocabulary in Cyber Security, including attack vectors, possible threats, and their purpose.

The students will understand the fundamental principles for defending against cyber attacks and the most critical defense techniques. By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the basics of ethical hacking and penetration testing.
• Using open-source intelligence, hacker forums, and exposed passwords, perform footprinting and reconnaissance.
• Perform scanning and enumeration using Nmap and Metasploit framework.
• Perform social engineering using theHarvester to collect victim organization’s emails, find login pages with Recon-Ng, and inject backdoors.
• Perform denial-of-service attacks with spoofing, smurf, reflection and packet amplification methods.
• Perform web application attacks using sqlmap, CSRF, and XSS attacks.
• Understand cryptography

Skills

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Use hacking tools and techniques like Nmap, Metasploit, hping3, social engineering toolkit, Recon-Ng
• How to design malicious remote access trojans using msfvenom
• Understand the network packet manipulation techniques to bypass the firewalls
• How to perform buffer overflows on real-world applications
• How to evade the antivirus software