COURSE LAYOUT
Week 1: Introduction to ethical hacking. Fundamentals of computer networking. TCP/IP protocol stack.
Week 2: IP addressing and routing. TCP and UDP. IP subnets.
Week 3: Routing protocols. IP version 6.
Week 4: Demonstration Session:: Vulnerability assessment: OpenVAS, Nessus, etc.
System hacking: password cracking, penetration testing, etc.
Week 5: Demonstration Session: Social engineering attacks.
Malware threats, penetration testing by creating backdoors.
Week 6: Introduction to cryptography, private-key encryption, public-key encryption.
Week 7: Cryptographic hash functions, digital signature and certificate, applications.
Week 8: Steganography, biometric authentication, network-based attacks, DNS and Email security.
Week 9: Demonstration Session:: Sniffing: Wireshark, ARP poisoning, DNS poisoning.
Hacking wireless networks, Denial of service attacks.
Week 10: Elements of hardware security: side-channel attacks, physical inclinable functions, hardware trojans.
Week 11: Demonstration Session:: Hacking web applications: vulnerability assessment, SQL injection, cross-site scripting.
Week 12: Case studies: various attacks scenarios and their remedies.