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: January 2nd, 2012):

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
  • FOCA
• Module 3: Network Penetration Testing
  • Networking Basics
  • Network Orientation
  • Network Scanning
  • Sniffing
  • Denial of Service
  • Using Nessus
  • Passive OS Fingerprinting
  • ARP Attacks and Intro to EtterCap
  • Network Protocols: In-depth Look at ICMP, TCP, and UDP *NEW
• Module 4: Server Penetration Testing
  • Protocols and Basics
  • Exploitation of Buffer Overflows
  • Using Metasploit
  • Brute Force: Hydra and Medusa
• Module 5: Client Penetration Testing
  • Client and User Attacks
  • Social Engineering Basics
• Module 6: Web Application Penetration Testing
  • Web Application Hacking Basics
  • XSS
  • CSRF
  • SQL Injection
  • Browser Exploitation Framework
  • ClickJacking: Yet Another Confused Deputy Problem *NEW
• Module 7: The Structure of a Penetration Test
  • The Basic Structure
• Module 8: Programming & Reverse Engineering
  • Basics of Coding in Ruby
  • Coding Meterpreter Scripts with Ruby
  • Introduction to Reverse Engineering
  • Low Level Software Introduction
  • The Reversing Process Introduction
  • The Legality of Reversing
  • Number Systems Counting and Conversion
  • Bitwise Logic Operations and Bit Shifting
  • Registers
• Module 9: Digital Forensics
  • Digital Forensics Introduction
  • Web Browser History
  • Windows Cache Forensics
  • Disk Overview
  • Filesystems – FAT
  • Filesystems – NTFS
  • Filesystems – Ext *NEW
  • Filesystems – HFS+ *NEW
  • The Sleuthkit Part I *NEW
  • The Sleuthkit Part II *NEW

The Cutting Edge

• Cross-site Flash Attacks
• Social Engineers Toolkit (SET)
• Introduction to PDF Attacks
• Cloud Computing
• PDF Reconnaissance and Data Disclosure Attacks
• Metasploit Advanced Topics: Using the db_ commands
• Introduction to the PDF Launch Action
• Metasploit Advanced Topics: Post-exploit with Meterpreter – Recon and Getting “Stuff”
• Metasploit Advanced Topics: Post-exploit with Meterpreter – Evasion and Connecting
• Experimenting with the PDF Launch Action
• PDF Exploitation via Metasploit
• Introduction to Armitage
• Evilgrade: Client Exploitation One Update at a Time
• Sqlninja: Attacking Microsoft SQL Servers
• Discombobulating a SOC: Syslog Spoofing
• ProxyChains: The Ultimate Proxifier!
• 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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