Real-World Ethical Hacking: Hands-on Cybersecurity
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New and updated for VirtualBox 6.1 and Kali 2020.2 and later! Learn Ethical Hacking, one of the fastest-growing and highest-paying careers, with over 1 Million cybersecurity job openings available this year! Learn practical, useful cybersecurity step-by-step from Computer Science Professor Dr. Bryson Payne, a SANS|GIAC Certified Pen Tester (GPEN), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and author of the Amazon #1 New Release and Top 10 Best Seller in Children's Programming Books, Teach Your Kids to Code (2015, No Starch Press) and his latest book, Hacking for Kids (2020, No Starch Press). Dr. Payne is also the Director of the Center for Cyber Operations Education at the University of North Georgia and directs the National Cyber Warrior Academy summer program.
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Quick, 4- to 10-minute lessons will get you performing real ethical hacking exercises in minutes. Over 75 video lectures and more than 8 hours of content will give you the practice you need to develop powerful new skills in cybersecurity and penetration testing! Protect your identity, your computer, your information, and your life - avoid social engineering, phishing, online attacks, ransomware and more! Plus, practical skills like:
Retrieve files from an old computer (Mac or PC, laptop or desktop), even if you've forgotten the password
Set up a virtual "sandbox" to safely open suspicious files without exposing your "real" computer
Learn command-line short-cuts and power tools that make you look like a computer wizard!
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- Anyone who wants to protect their information, their family, their business, or their country from online attacks.
- If you want to learn useful, real-world ethical hacking skills, this is the course for you.
- This is NOT a certification course, but most skills will transfer to CEH, OSCP, and other hands-on certifications.
- Perfect for beginners, or for competent computer users who want to learn how and why to protect themselves online.
Real-World Ethical Hacking is based on lessons taught in the National Cyber Warrior Academy, but this video course is not endorsed or sponsored by the University or by the NSA. All opinions expressed are the author's alone, and even ethical hacking carries some risk. Please use the tools and techniques in this course responsibly and ONLY on computers you own or have express, written permission to test.
Our first hands-on, real-world ethical hacking exercise: Hacking Windows, resetting a password and creating new admin users, using a boot disk.
The attack vector for this hack will be the Windows "Sticky Keys" app SETHC.EXE, triggered any time you press the SHIFT key 5 times in Windows.
Where to get a legal copy of Windows 10 Enterprise, and how to burn your own Windows 10 install/boot disc.
Just two reboots, two special keys, and four commands to PWN any Windows PC.
Second reboot, second key combo, and final two commands to add an admin/root/super user to any Windows box from Windows XP to Windows 10.1!
Stage 3: Gaining Access! Log in as root/super/admin user and recover your files!
Lessons Learned:
- Physical access is total access
- Never leave your laptop/desktop unattended
- Ethical Hacking is practical and useful!
To protect against this hack:
- Change your BIOS settings to require a password to change the boot order or boot device
- Encrypt your files to make them unreadable without your ORIGINAL password
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Updated for Kali Linux 2020.2 and newer versions!