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Ethical Hacking (CY-703 (A)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Ethical Hacking: Introduction, Foot printing and scanning

  • Ethical Hacking: Introduction, Networking & Basics
  • Foot printing and scanning: Information Gathering, Determining the Network Range
  • Identifying Active Machines, Finding Open Ports and Access Points
  • OS Fingerprinting Services, Mapping the Network Attack Surface
  • Google Hacking, Scanning
  • Windows Hacking, Linux Hacking
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Unit 2

The Business Perspective, Planning for a Controlled Attack

  • Business Objectives, Security Policy, Previous Test Results, Business Challenges
  • Planning for a Controlled Attack: Inherent Limitations, Imposed Limitations, Timing is Everything
  • Attack Type, Source Point, Required Knowledge, Multi-Phased Attacks
  • Teaming and Attack Structure, Engagement Planner, The Right Security Consultant, The Tester, Logistics, Intermediates, Law Enforcement
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Unit 3

Preparing for a Hack, Reconnaissance

  • Preparing for a Hack: Technical Preparation, Managing the Engagement
  • Reconnaissance: Social Engineering, Physical Security, Internet Reconnaissance
  • Steganography, Cryptography, Wireless Hacking, Firewall & Honeypots, IDS & IPS, Vulnerability, Penetration Testing
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Unit 4

Enumeration, Exploitation

  • Enumeration: Enumeration Techniques, Soft Objective, Looking Around or Attack, Elements of Enumeration, Preparing for the Next Phase
  • Exploitation: Intuitive Testing, Evasion, Threads and Groups, Operating Systems, Password Crackers, RootKits, applications, Wardialing, Network
  • Services DoS attacks and Areas of Concern
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Unit 5

Reverse Engineering, Incident Handling and ethical issues

  • Reverse Engineering, Email Hacking, Incident Handling & Response
  • Bluetooth Hacking, Mobile Phone Hacking
  • Basic ethical hacking tools and usage of these tools in a professional environment
  • Legal, professional and ethical issues likely to face the domain of ethical hacking. Ethical responsibilities, professional integrity and making appropriate use of the tools and techniques associated with ethical hacking

Laboratory Experiments

  • List the tools for Ethical Hacking.
  • Implement Foot-printing and Reconnaissance using tools.
  • Setup a honey pot and monitor the honey pot on network.
  • Create a social networking website login page using phishing techniques.
  • Write a code to demonstrate DoS attacks.
  • Install rootkits and study variety of options.
  • Study of Techniques uses for Web Based Password Capturing.
  • Implement passive scanning, active scanning, session hijacking, cookies extraction using Burp suit tool.

Reference Books

  • Certified Ethical Hacker — Michael Gregg — Pearson IT Certification — Version 9, Second Edition
  • Hacking the Hacker — Roger Grimes — Wiley
  • The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking — Ankit Fadia — Premier Press
  • The Ethical Hack: A Framework for Business Value Penetration Testing — James S. Tiller — Auerbach Publications, CRC Press
  • Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures Attack Phases — EC-Council — Cengage Learning
  • Hands-On Ethical Hacking and Network Defense — Michael Simpson, Kent Backman, James Corley — Cengage Learning
  • Hacking For Dummies — Kevin Beaver — John Wiley — 6ed
  • Digital Forensic — Nilakshi Jain — John Wiley
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