Ethical Hacking: System Hacking

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• System hacking to detect, prevent, and counter these types of attacks.
• The main methods of system hacking—password cracking, privilege escalation, spyware installation, and keylogging—and the countermeasures IT security professionals can take to fight these attacks.

Syllabus:

• Introduction
• What you should know
• Hacking ethically
   

1. Understanding System Hacking

• Setting the stage
• Hacking goals
• Authenticate a user
• Challenge: Reviewing Azure authentication methods
• Challenge: Reviewing Azure authentication methods
   

2. Gaining Access

• Acquiring passwords
• Password cracking techniques
• Generating rainbow tables
• Defend against password attacks
   

3. Escalating Priveleges

• Privilege escalation overview
• Obtaining administrator privileges
• Executing applications
• Defending against privilege escalation
   

4. Recognizing Spyware

• Spyware overview
• Spyware types
• Capturing screen activity
• Spyware on a cell phone
• Defend against spyware
   

5. Grasping Keyloggers

• Compare keystroke loggers
• Using a keystroke logger
• Methodology of keystroke logging
• Keystroke loggers for macOS
• Protect against keylogging
   

6. Hiding in Plain Sight

• Swimming in the NTFS data stream
• Using steganography
• Understanding steganography
• Using whitespace steganography
• Hide a message with steganography
• Detecting steganography
   

7. Covering Your Tracks

• Disable logging and hide files
• Outlining ways to cover your tracks

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