Ethical Hacking: System Hacking

Dive into ethical hacking, including gaining access, spyware, effective countermeasures, and more. This course maps to the System Hacking competency from the CEH Body of Knowledge.

Introduction

• Hacking the system
• Getting the most out of this course
• Hacking ethically

1. Understanding System Hacking

• Setting the stage
• Getting a foothold
• Authenticating a user
• Challenge: Reviewing Entra ID authentication methods
• Solution: Reviewing Entra ID authentication methods

2. Gaining Access

• Acquiring passwords
• Discovering password tools
• Cracking passwords
• Employing rainbow tables
• Defending against password attacks

3. Exploiting Vulnerabilities

• Leveraging security flaws
• Overflowing the buffer
• Enhancing software security

4. Escalating Privileges

• Understanding privilege escalation
• Obtaining administrator privileges
• Defending against privilege escalation

5. Maintaining Access

• Dissecting rootkits
• User Mode and Kernel Mode
• Using rootkits
• Detect, remove, and avoid rootkits

6. Grasping Keyloggers

• Outlining keystroke loggers
• Protecting against keylogging

7. Recognizing Spyware

• Explaining spyware behavior
• Mobile spyware and invasive apps
• Defending against spyware

8. Hiding in Plain Sight

• Using steganography
• Swimming in the NTFS data stream
• Using whitespace steganography
• Detecting steganography

9. Maintaining Persistence

• Remaining in the system
• Staying under the radar
• Defend against persistence attacks

10. Covering Tracks

• Disabling logging and hiding files
• Outlining ways to cover your tracks
• Summarize the course and what's next