Curriculum
At The Hacker Academy, all content is broken down into modules. Each module has subsections that contain instructional videos, slides available to download, and hands on lab materials (including VMs when needed). All content is always available online, 24/7 and new content is added on a monthly basis.
Below is a current list modules and lessons (List Last Updated: August 13th, 2010):
Ethical Hacking
- Module 1: Hacking Fundamentals
- Professional Penetration Testing
- The Mind of a Hacker
- Security Fundamentals
- Module 2: Reconnaissance
- Business Intelligence
- Network Intelligence
- Search Engine Hacking
- Module 3: Network Penetration Testing
- Networking Basics
- Network Orientation
- Network Scanning
- Sniffing
- Denial of Service
- Module 4: Server Penetration Testing
- Protocols and Basics
- Exploitation of Buffer Overflows
- Using Metasploit
- Module 5: Client Penetration Testing
- Social Engineering Basics
- Module 6: Web Application Penetration Testing
- Web Application Hacking Basics
- XSS
- CSRF
- SQL Injection
- Module 7: The Structure of a Penetration Test
- The Basic Structure
The Cutting Edge
- Cross-site Flash Attacks
- Social Engineers Toolkit (SET)
- Monthly Mindset Practice Quizzes
- Monthly Mindset Practice Quizzes are supplementary exercises, released once per month, to help practice your inductive/abductive reasoning, convergent/divergent deduction, and recursive thinking skills. While considered bonus content, and not mandatory for or attached to any one module – they are pretty awesome.
Check this page often as new content is added monthly and this page will show
new modules as they are released.
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