0x7df Basic Tools & Techniques for Hackers - Beginner Level

This beginner's course presents you with the background information, technical skill, and basic concepts required to get you going. As the title suggests, it provides an ideal training ground for our other SensePost Training courses, further self-study, or other hacking courses.

Lifestyle today is based around the Internet. From banking, to shopping and leisure, everything has an Internet layer. Numerous media reports have stated the obvious that there is a chronic skills shortage with regards to defensive and offensive security. This course sets you on course to beginning a career, or understanding more, about information security. We start off explaining why vulnerabilities exist, how one would discover them and also what the next step is. This gets you into the mindset of a hacker and by exploiting real-world vulnerabilities yourselves, you start to see how attackers operate.

COURSE TOPICS

• Information security fundamentals
  
• Working with a command-line interface (Linux and Windows)
  
• An introduction to an offensive Linux Operating System
  
• Computer networking fundamentals
  
• Discovering vulnerabilities
  
• Exploiting vulnerabilities in the network and application layer
  
• Exploiting vulnerabilities in mobile applications and wireless networks

As with all of our courses, this is a hands-on course. You will get to break into numerous networks, applications, and devices over the two days to fully understand what basic attacks look like as well as understand how they are performed.