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      • Week 8: Social Engineering, Encoding, and Encryption
      • Week 9: Malware
      • Week 10: Web application hacking, Intercepting Proxies, and URL Editing
      • Week 11: SQL injection
      • Week 12: Web Services
      • Week 13: Evasion Techniques
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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackay

Wade Mackey

Week 4 Presentation

September 22, 2016 by Wade Mackey Leave a Comment

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Week 3 Presentation

September 14, 2016 by Wade Mackey Leave a Comment

Getting a head start. intro-to-ethical-hacking-week-3

Question for this week

September 12, 2016 by Wade Mackey 13 Comments

First let me say that I have no right or wrong answer for this, just want to see each of you weigh in.

In light of the news around an Israeli company developing malware to facilitate the UAE snooping on human rights activists, how far would you be willing to go if you ran the IT Security company that created this malware?

Here’s a link to the story in case you don’t recall. http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/25/the-uae-spends-big-on-israeli-spyware-to-listen-in-on-a-dissident/

 

Presentation for Week 2

September 8, 2016 by Wade Mackey 1 Comment

Here is the presentation for Week 2

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Also, and email has been sent to each participant with a link to the Video.

Comments for “Article: SWIFT discloses more cyber thefts, pressures banks on security”

September 4, 2016 by Wade Mackey 3 Comments

Behind the scenes, SWIFT is upping the ante for financial institutions.  If you do not upgrade your systems and put robust processes in place you find your institution disconnect from SWIFT.  This is effectively a death sentence for a bank.

 

Wade Mackey

Comments for ” Students can use the dark web to cheat their way through school”

September 4, 2016 by Wade Mackey 1 Comment

It sounds old fashioned, but I tell students that the may person you cheat is yourself.  Much like this course, if you just want to get through with a score. it is not difficult.  If you want to learn and be prepared for your future, then you have to put the work in.

Wade Mackey

 

Comments for “Feds Warn States to Batten Down Hatches Following Election System Attacks”

September 4, 2016 by Wade Mackey 2 Comments

This is an area where internal threats may be even greater.  Admins of these systems have the ability to “adjust” vote counts.  This means processes will need to be put in place to ensure this does not happen or is logged and reported.

Wade Mackey

 

Comments for “Protect yourself from one of the easiest ways people can steal your personal data in public”

September 4, 2016 by Wade Mackey 3 Comments

One thing to keep in mind is that firms that process PII or other sensitive data may restrict staff that access these systems from working remotely.  In particular, financial firms often have sophisticated monitoring programs that may not work for remote users.

Wade Mackey

 

Comments for “A Password for my Password”

September 4, 2016 by Wade Mackey 3 Comments

One thing to keep in mind is that password keepers and the browser function to remember passwords have their own vulnerabilities that can resut in an attacker taking advantage of these.

Wade

 

Week 1 Presentation

August 31, 2016 by Wade Mackey

Here is the presentation from Week 1

 

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  • Week 01: Overview (1)
  • Week 02: TCP/IP and Network Architecture (8)
  • Week 03: Reconnaisance (25)
  • Week 04: Vulnerability Scanning (19)
  • Week 05: System and User Enumeration (15)
  • Week 06: Sniffers (9)
  • Week 07: NetCat and HellCat (11)
  • Week 08: Social Engineering, Encoding and Encryption (12)
  • Week 09: Malware (14)
  • Week 10: Web Application Hacking (12)
  • Week 11: SQL Injection (11)
  • Week 12: Web Services (10)
  • Week 13: Evasion Techniques (7)
  • Week 14: Review of all topics (5)

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