Introduction to Ethical Hacking

• This module covers a fundamental concept – hacking. You will understand what hacking is and its three types: black hat, white hat, and grey hat hackers. Lastly, you will also get familiar with ethical and unethical hacking.

In this module, you will learn the goals of ethical hacking. You will understand how ethical hacking is legal and adapted by many organizations.  

• The learner will learn about various skills to be pursued by ethical hackers. The learners will also get to know about tools used by ethical hackers.

• The learner will understand the importance of ethical hacking across various domains such as web application environment, network architecture, mobile applications, etc.

• The learner will learn about various domains under ethical hacking, such as web applications, network architecture, etc.

• The learner will get familiar with common web application attacks, injection flaws, cross-site scripting, and web services attacks.

• The learners will learn about hacking methodologies such as web footprinting, vulnerability scanners, identifying entry points, and attack surface.

• The learner will be able to understand types of android attacks such as untrusted APKs, SMS, Email, Spying, App sandboxing issues, and rooting.

• The learner will be able to understand endpoint attacks, malware attacks, vulnerabilities, and exploits.

• The learner will understand DDoS attacks in this section.

• SQL Injection process is demonstrated in this section.

• The learner will be able to analyze why web applications are subjected to hacking.

• bWAPP stands for a buggy web application, an insecure web application that includes vulnerabilities

• bWAPP architecture is discussed in this section. bWAPP is an open-source PHP application.

• The significant features of bWAPP are discussed in this section.

• The learners will understand why ethical hackers need to learn bWAPP.

• Kali Linux is an operating system that focuses on security and we will be exploring that in this module.

• Web application attack such as broken authentication is demonstrated in this section.

• Web application attacks such as blind SQL injections are demonstrated in this section.

• Web application attack such as cross-site scripting is demonstrated in this section.

• Hacking occurs because of computer security threats such as computer viruses, computer worms, scareware, keylogger, adware, malware, backdoor, trojan, ransomware, and spyware.

• This module covers the ethical hacking process, such as information gathering, scanning, gaining and maintaining access, clearing tracks, and reporting.

• Around 75% of the total attacks are on web application domains.

• The learner will understand how attackers can easily compromise the mobile network due to vulnerabilities.

• The learner will be able to understand tap jacking with an example.

• The learner will be able to understand network attacks and their types, i.e., active and passive attacks.

• Domains such as cloud computing, IoT, Blockchain, and edge computing are discussed in this section.

• In this module you will learn web applications which is prime target for attackers, its common threats and the importance of web application firewalls. We will also cover mobile-specific attack vectors and strategies for securing mobile applications.