Welcome to ICS 281: Ethical Hacking

This course will cover the following topics:

• What is Penetration Testing

• Planning and Scoping a Pentest

• Information/Enumeration Gathering

• Social Engineering

• Vulnerabilities and Vulnerability Scanning

• System Hacking (Windows & Linux)

• Network Hacking

• Web Apps and Web Server Hacking

• Coding for Ethical Hackers

• Reporting

This course is broken up into 7 number of modules. Each module will contain videos (lecture and/or demos), readings, labs and homework assignments to complete. 

Module 0: Course Introduction

Module 1: Networking Review, skills required, what is a pentest, planning and scoping 

Module 2: Information/Enumeration Gathering

Module 3: Vulnerabilities and vulnerability scanning

Module 4: Social Engineering, System and Network Hacking, Cryptography

Module 5: Web Application Vulnerabilities, Web Apps and Web Server Hacking

Module 6: Python, Ruby, Power Shell and Bash scripting

Module 7: Reporting & Communication