Hands-on Password Attacks and Security
Hands-on Password Attacks and Security
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5( 290 Reviews )
2 Hrs
Cybersecurity
Beginner5(290 Reviews)2 HrsLearn how attackers can bypass passwords and how you can prevent them from doing so.
Learn how attackers can bypass passwords and how you can prevent them from doing so.
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Overview
Passwords have become the top authentication factor in today’s world. You use it in combination with an email or username to sign into almost any service. Big Corporations like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook still widely use passwords as an authentication mechanism today. But how secure are passwords?
This course focuses on the practical attacks that malicious users use to crack passwords, how you can use this attack in a penetration test, and how you can prevent them.
We will very briefly cover the basics of cryptography, hashing, and entropy and then immediately go on to crack different types of passwords using different methodologies.
The necessary resources for this course are in the "Resources" section of Video 1.1. You can also access them through this direct link - https://github.com/ec-council-learning/Hands-on-Password-Attacks-and-Security
What You Will Learn
Setting up a small environment for security testing- Bypass passwords using Brute Force Attacks, Dictionary Attacks, Rainbow table attacks and keyloggers
- Use different tools to perform password attacks
- Prevent Brute Force Attacks, Dictionary Attacks, Rainbow table attacks and sniffing via keyloggers
- Create strong passwords that you will never forget
- Tools to help you prevent password attacks and/or create a strong password
Prerequisites
- A Computing System with Mac, Linux or Windows as OS, 6 cores processor, 6 GB of RAM and 250 GB storage
- Familiarity with a command line interface
- Ability to create virtual machines and install Windows + Linux
- Browser: Firefox, Chrome
- VirtualBox, latest version
- Kali ISO
Course Content
Chapter 1: Cracking Your First Password
5 Videos | 0 hrs 25 mins
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Chapter 2: Brute Force Attacks
4 Videos | 0 hrs 15 mins
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Chapter 3: Dictionary Attacks
4 Videos | 0 hrs 22 mins
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Chapter 4: Rainbow Table Attacks
4 Videos | 0 hrs 23 mins
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Chapter 5: The Downside of Passwords
5 Videos | 0 hrs 19 mins
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Chapter 6: Remedies and Mitigations
5 Videos | 0 hrs 22 mins
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Chapter 7: Case Studies
1 Videos | 0 hrs 11 mins
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Instructor
Zanidd
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Shane Ronald Douman
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Sithum Nimlaka Abeydheera
Good Course About Password Attacks and Security. I Recommend this course to another students.
Hyunsoo
I like remedies and mitigations section to learn counter measure corresponded each attack. Furthermore, I guess this course is helpful to design pol...
Keshant Kumar Uikey
Good
Antonio Malaquias
The theoretical part.
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