Ethically Hack the Planet Part 4

Plan this part four of the ethical hacking course by reviewing the first four fundamental components essential for the upcoming section, and build foundational terms for future, specialized content.

Download and set up Kali Linux and Metasploitable 2 on VMware, extract files, open virtual machines, and log in with Kali/Kali for Kali machine and MSF admin for Metasploitable 2.

Explore how cloud computing lets you access resources over the internet without owning hardware and store photos and videos on remote data centers from any device.

Explore cloud service models—infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service—with examples like AWS EC2, Heroku, and Gmail.

Learn how containers bundle your application and its dependencies into portable, efficient units for modern app development, and use Amazon Elastic Container Service to create and run them.

Learn to enumerate AWS S3 buckets with the S3 scanner, using a buckets.txt list and the enumerate flag to verify existence and access permissions.

Demonstrate using the ghost tool to connect to a phone via IP address, with setup from GitHub; learners clone the project and follow along to explore networked access concepts.

Explore the five-step penetration testing process—reconnaissance, scanning, gaining access, maintaining access, and clearing traces—and learn network, web application, and wireless testing, essential skills, certifications, and hands-on practice to secure systems.

Install OpenVPN with apt and download the VPN configuration file. Run sudo openvpn with the config from your downloads folder to start the VPN session.

deploy the machine, conduct reconnaissance with nmap, locate directories via go-buster, compromise the web server, and perform privilege escalation, guiding you through the five sequential tasks.

Identify allowed file extensions, upload payloads, and compromise a web server in an ethical hacking lab. Gain a shell, escalate to root, and capture the final flag.

discover how homograph attacks spoof domains by using look-alike characters, and learn practical mitigation with punycode and unicode verification to prevent malicious links.

Explore what ransomware is, how it encrypts files and demands a ransom for the decryption key, and discuss an ethical, controlled demonstration.

The session demonstrates cloning a ransomware tool, installing dependencies, running scripts on localhost, and encrypting a file as a practical demonstration.

Protect yourself from ransomware by backing up data regularly, updating software, using antivirus software, staying alert to phishing, avoiding pirated software, and securing your network with a firewall.

Learn to remotely control a computer using the codec tool, install via apt, view server host and port, check sessions, and access a cmd shell on a Windows machine.

Demonstrate password hash cracking using SQLite to query the web app database, extract the admin user hash from the users table, and login to retrieve the flag.

Demonstrates a practical command injection attack, showing how default variables can execute commands, enumerate files and users, reveal the app's running user, and identify the Linux version.

Explore insecure design and its vulnerabilities caused by missing or ineffective control design in software or systems. See a practical demonstration of insecure validity in a Zomato discount scenario.

Demonstrate how an insecure password reset design, using weak security questions like color guesses, enables unauthorized account access and flag retrieval.