Cyber Security Cadet - Ethical Hacking: 2023 Latest Edition!

Master the five phases of ethical hacking—from information gathering to identifying vulnerabilities and exploiting systems—through practical knowledge, ctfs, and a customized operating system for hands-on training.

Master note taking to reinforce cybersecurity learning in practice. Outline the five-step note-taking process and capture assessments, exploitation steps, vulnerabilities, and command outputs for clear cybersecurity reports.

Learn a five-step method for effective note taking in cybersecurity, including dating notes, bullet points, illustrations and screenshots, mind maps, and organizing notes for quick reference and memory retention.

Install and use cherry tree and flame shot on Windows or Linux to organize cyber security notes, capture annotated screenshots, blur sensitive data, and export to pdf.

Explore how hypervisors create software-based hosts to run multiple operating systems, enabling Windows and Linux to operate simultaneously on one computer.

Install VirtualBox on Windows, download the Windows host version, run the installation wizard, install the extension pack, verify the extension in preferences, and prepare guest machines.

Install a pre-configured cyber security lab from an OVA by downloading Technophile CyberWorks, importing it, and logging in with provided credentials; adjust RAM and boot the Linux box.

Learn how to install an operating system from an ISO file using VirtualBox, including extracting the ISO, selecting language, partitioning, creating a user, and completing the Linux installation.

Install metasploitable 2 by downloading from sourceforge, extracting, and setting up a Linux virtual machine in VirtualBox with Debian and 1 GB RAM; log in with the default credentials.

Create an isolated network in the witchel box by configuring the network range to 192.168.1.0/24, map two targets to it, and verify IPs with ifconfig to ensure containment.

Preserve your operating system with snapshots, backing up settings, files, and folders for an eight-minute restore after customization.

Learn to create and use snapshots to capture and restore a system state, including naming, describing, and saving snapshots, then boot and revert to that state.

Discover Kali Linux, a penetration testing oriented Linux distribution derived from BackTrack, optimized with numerous tools for security assessments.

Explore the Kali Linux desktop, terminal usage, and tool categories: information gathering, vulnerability analysis, web application analysis, and password attacks, along with multitasking workspaces and system settings.

Compare graphical user interfaces and command line interfaces across Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, highlighting how GUI uses resources while CLI offers faster, direct control of system modules.

Practice basic Linux commands as a cyber security cadet, including viewing and changing the present working directory, creating and moving files, and revealing hidden files with less -A.

Differentiate passive and active information gathering, and show how collected data like host names, IPs, and domains drive the security assessment.

Explore how network scanning gathers intel for assessments, differentiating the information collected (host names, domain names, company details) and mapping inputs to port classifications (0–1023, 1024–49151, 49152–65535).

Identify cracks and openings in security through manual or automated vulnerability assessment, recognizing human error and multi-layer defenses, with Nessus as a prominent software tool.

Discover how ethical hackers gain access using three methods: password guessing and brute force, social engineering, and misconfigurations, and how to identify and mitigate these vulnerabilities.

Understand how leaving footprints and failed trace clearance can lead to detection, jail, and security risks, and learn how analyzing system records helps identify what happened on a network.

Master the information gathering phase through open source intelligence (OSINT), using publicly available data and search tools to improve assessment accuracy. Explore metadata, footprints, and real world OSINT uses.

Master open source intelligence (osint) techniques using google search queries, google docs, and google hacking database, plus social media research and the Ohlson framework to uncover public information and vulnerabilities.

Master Rocinante for open source intelligence by organizing workspaces, loading modules, and collecting subdomains via brute force against DNS, then generate insightful reports.

Explore metadata and its role in open source intelligence, including image metadata such as GPS, date, and size, revealing location, and learn to identify and report metadata vulnerabilities in websites.

Define a network as a connection of two or more devices, differentiate local area networks from wide area networks, and illustrate home wifi and Internet access through Internet service providers.

Explore how IP addresses identify devices on the Internet, the backbone of the Internet, using four octets and 32 bits to locate hosts, with examples like 192.168.1.0.

Explore how the tcp/ip protocol suite underpins the internet, enabling IP addressing, data transmission via TCP, and connection management through important TCP flags.

Explore how nmap maps networks by identifying open ports and operating systems, enabling vulnerability assessment and password-cracking considerations, and emphasizing information gathering through online exploration.

Master tcp connect (three-way handshake) and stealth, ack, and udp port scans to identify open, closed, or filtered ports and reveal firewall behaviors.

Perform hands-on nmap scanning to identify open, closed, filtered, and unfiltered ports using full-open and half-open techniques, while analyzing captured packets with Wireshark.

Explore how to save Nmap outputs in normal, XML, grappler, and -oA triple-format to build comprehensive assessment reports and identify open ports in networks.

Learn to use redmap and web map to analyze robot outputs and generate an xml output scouting report highlighting open ports and cves.

Explore the nmap scripting engine (NSE) and its Lua scripts for vulnerability assessment, exploitation, password cracking, and authentication attacks, organized by categories like default, brute force, and vulnerability scanning.

Learn to use NSE scripts in the Nmap scripting engine to perform information gathering, operating system discovery, and password cracking across target systems.

Drive vulnerability assessment by discovering and organizing assets, assessing vulnerabilities, reporting findings, remediating, and reverifying in the six-phase vulnerability management lifecycle to strengthen network security.

Identify vulnerabilities with Nmap by scanning for services and versions, explore vulnerability databases, and use custom scripts to install and update tools, then assess potential command injection risks.

Learn to install Nessus Essentials, download with activation code, create a user account, and complete the initial setup for automated vulnerability assessment.

Explore Nessus from installation to its login, home page, and core scans while you learn about host discovery, basic and advanced scans, plugin families, and configuring plugins and CVE-based checks.

Learn to perform a Nessus assessment and output, configure targets and scan options, interpret vulnerabilities by severity, and generate executive summaries and custom reports for remediation.

Explore exploitation techniques, including password cracking, social engineering, and exploiting vulnerabilities, using information gathered through open source intelligence to gain access.

Learn password cracking with the Hydra tool, using username and password wordlists to simulate credential access and validate target connectivity.

Learn manual and automated vulnerability exploitation in ethical hacking, including password cracking concepts, target scanning, and researching public exploits and scripting to compromise vulnerable systems.

learn automated exploitation with a popular framework, initialize its database, run the console, search for a vulnerability module, configure the target, and deploy a shell for remote control.

Strengthen passwords by turning personal goals into passphrases, ensuring at least eight characters with alphanumeric and special symbols, and applying goal-based password management for unique, memorable, and frequently updated credentials.

Explains how log files provide accountability by recording actions on Windows and Linux. Highlights why system logs matter and previews clearing locks to cover tracks.

Explore governance checks for clearing Windows event logs, detailing manual and automated methods to clear application, security, and system logs via the control panel.

Explore how to view and manage Linux system logs and history, including inspecting processes, editing log files with nano, and understanding how history and process data are stored.