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Ethical Hacking Basics

Understand penetration testing concepts, reconnaissance, and basic exploitation.

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Syllabus

1

What is Ethical Hacking?

2

The Penetration Testing Methodology

3

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

4

Active Reconnaissance with Nmap

5

Vulnerability Scanning

6

Exploitation Frameworks: Metasploit

7

Web Application Hacking: OWASP Top 10

8

SQL Injection (SQLi)

9

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

10

Post-Exploitation & Privilege Escalation

11

Wireless Security: WEP to WPA3

12

The Evil Twin Attack

13

Network Sniffing & Packet Analysis

14

Enumeration: SMB and SNMP

15

Password Cracking: Dictionary vs Brute Force

16

Rainbow Tables & Salting

17

Social Engineering Toolkits

18

Privilege Escalation Fundamentals

19

Linux Privilege Escalation: SUID

20

Windows Privilege Escalation: Token Impersonation

21

Malware Analysis: Static vs Dynamic

22

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

23

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

24

Local File Inclusion (LFI)

25

Remote File Inclusion (RFI)

26

XML External Entity (XXE) Injection

27

Insecure Deserialization

28

API Security & JWT Tokens

29

Active Directory: Kerberos & Kerberoasting

30

Active Directory: Pass-the-Hash

31

BloodHound and Lateral Movement

32

Golden Ticket Attacks

33

Bypassing Antivirus: Obfuscation

34

Bypassing Antivirus: In-Memory Execution

35

Pivoting and Tunneling

36

Cloud Security: IAM Misconfigurations

37

S3 Bucket Leaks

38

Container Security: Docker Escapes

39

Kubernetes (K8s) Misconfigurations

40

Mobile App Pentesting: Android APKs

41

Dynamic Instrumentation with Frida

42

Hardware Hacking Basics

43

Software-Defined Radio (SDR)

44

Incident Response and Forensics

45

Bug Bounty Programs

46

Ethical Hacking: The Final Exam