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    • First Half of the Semester
      • Week 1: Course Introduction
      • Week 2: Meterpreter, Avoiding Detection, Client Side Attacks, and Auxiliary Modules
      • Week 3: Social Engineering Toolkit, SQL Injection, Karmetasploit, Building Modules in Metasploit, and Creating Exploits
      • Week 4: Porting Exploits, Scripting, and Simulating Penetration Testing
      • Week 5: Independent Study – Perform Metasploit Attack and Create Presentation
      • Week 6: Ettercap
      • Week 7: Introduction to OWASP’s WebGoat application
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      • Week 8: Independent Study
      • Week 9: Introduction to Wireless Security
      • Week 10: Wireless Recon, WEP, and WPA2
      • Week 11: WPA2 Enterprise, Wireless beyond WiFi
      • Week 12: Jack the Ripper, Cain and Able, Delivery of Sample Operating Systems
      • Week 13: Independent Study – Analyze provided Operating System Samples and Create Assessment Report
      • Week 14: Deliver Assessment to Operating System Class either in person or via teleconferenc
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MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing

MIS 5212 - Section 001 - Wade Mackey

Fox School of Business

Brent Hladik

DDoS Costs Skyrocket for SMBs and Enterprises Alike

February 25, 2018 by Brent Hladik Leave a Comment

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ddos-costs-skyrocket-for-smbs/

 

Interesting take on how much it is costing companies to take care of ddos related kinds of attacks. As well as what they do to handle them.

CISOs See Incidents Growing and Preparedness Waning

February 25, 2018 by Brent Hladik Leave a Comment

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisos-see-incidents-growing/

Interesting article on how top leaders view how they see companies handling security related issues.  Also on how well they are handling them.

 

Facebook Aims to Make Security More Social

February 25, 2018 by Brent Hladik 1 Comment

https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/facebook-aims-to-make-security-more-social-/d/d-id/1331063

 

About time for facebook to make their stuff more secure.  Would have thought they would have thought about this from the beginning.

 

 

Encrypted Attacks Continue to Dog Perimeter Defenses

February 25, 2018 by Brent Hladik Leave a Comment

https://www.darkreading.com/perimeter/encrypted-attacks-continue-to-dog-perimeter-defenses/d/d-id/1331038

Interesting article on how encrypted attacks create issues for corporate defenses.

Tracking Bitcoin Wallets as IOCs for Ransomware

February 25, 2018 by Brent Hladik Leave a Comment

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/tracking-bitcoin-wallets-as-iocs-for-ransomware-/a/d-id/1331016

Interesting article in relation to bitcoin wallets and the new cryptocurrency’s.

 

 

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