Certified ethical hacking and cyber security for newbies

This lesson starts by ushering in a brief background of ethical hacking and how it all started in order to arm students with a starting point.

The following lesson will explain to you WHAT these so-called ethical hackers do on a day to day basis

In the following tutorial, I will summarize the major importance of ethical hackers and their significance to your organization or home computer infrastructure.

In this lecture, we will be looking closely at what competencies and skills are required for one to be even considered an ethical hacker

The last lecture in this chapter will categorize the types of hackers in relation to the systems they are targeting and the nature of their intentions.

In this lesson, I will talk about the bait and switch method where Cybercriminals hijack online ads on high-profile websites on the internet and acquire sidebars or pop-up panels that have advertisements on them

I will take you through the browser cookie theft method where hackers can sniff and steal private information stored within your browser as cookies

A denial of service attack is a cyber assault in which hackers attempt to render a computer or network resource inaccessible to their intended users by disrupting the services of a host connected to the Internet temporarily or indefinitely

The lesson will introduce Keylogging which  allows the attackers with standard coding skills to monitor the movements you make on a keyboard or mouse

This lecture will show you the various types of malware and how they can be used by malicious hackers to compromise your computer networks, I have also taken the liberty to include a source code of a simple virus you can make on your own just for fun.

In this lesson, you will learn more about phishing attacks and how you can protect yourself.

Wireless access point attacks are an ideal way for hackers to target a captive audience that can monitor, capture or hijack data streams for various purposes

The last lecture in this chapter will teach you about the man-in-the-middle attacks and how they can be used by black hat hackers to steal and sniff into your private data.

I will introduce the approaches towards hacking

This is where the ethical hacker conceptualizes how a malicious hacker would launch an attack from or on the World Wide Web remotely

In this lecture, I will take you through the remote dial up network analysis as an approache towards ethical hacking

This test will represents a person who has a legal link and has been permitted to be present at the business premises to perform network audits

This chapter lays the best policies that should be put into place by your organization

In this lecture i will talk about the security policies that you should set up

Computer use guards against the misuse of electronic information

This lecture will talk about the importance of system administration procedures that guard against intrusion

Each and every organization should have this plan which is a detailed, comprehensive document with distinct phases that help IT professionals  deal with cybersecurity incidents such as data breaches

effective configuration management will go a long way in securing your organization

This chapter will help you get familiar with some of the greatest tools used in hacking

Nmap is the best tool to be ever used in the second phase of ethical hacking for port scanning and fingerprinting of operating systems

This is a commonly used vulnerability scanner

Nikto is the best way to scan for web server vulnerabilities and prepare for penetration

Kismet identifies networks and their loopholes through passive packet processing

Metasploit is the best tool for newbies, Offering a database which has a user-friendly interface and a perfect approach to conduct penetration testing

This wonderful tool can detect potential vulnerable Wi-Fi networks

This chapter will attempt to simulate and guide you through the steps of an ethical hacking session

During this phase, information is collected and the reasoning behind a web app you have been assigned to find analyze is gathered

This stage examines web server vulnerabilities and potential loopholes

This is the phase in which you are required to conduct actual penetration testing on the target.

This phase is supposed to evaluate the results from the previous lesson and potential loopholes will then be patched before the malicious hackers find them.

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