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CCW203 Ethical Hacking

Unit Descriptor

Module Descriptor

This module introduces to students the foundation of ethical hacking / system intrusion / penetration testing, looking into the processes, techniques and tools used by white hat hackers / penetration tester / ethical hacker.

Pre-requisite

Nil

Assessment Methods

Coursework: 50% Assignment & 50% Test

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the unit, the students will be able

1 Define the need for Ethical Hacking / Penetration Testing need.

2 Perform reconnaissance

3 Perform Scanning

4 Perform vulnerability tests on Host

5 Perform vulnerability tests on Web-App and Cloud environment

Core Reading:

1 The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing. Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Made Easy. Patrick Engebretson

2 Publication on OWASP WebGoat Project

3 Hands-on Ethical Hacking and Network Defense. Micheal T. Simpson, Kent Backman and James E. Corley

4 Publication on Metasploit and/or Kali Linux

In school, we will be setting up 2 virtual machine for our hacking.

Setup of Target Machine - Metasploitable in Oracle VirtualBox

Kali Linux - Unable to Boot Kernel Requires PAE error message (Solution)

Oracle VirtualBox - Missing Host-Only Adapter solution:

Speed up VirtualBox

Q: I am getting the same IP address for both of my virtual machine.

A: It is likely you are NOT using the Host-Only Adapter for both the virtual machine. If you are using the school NAT, you will have a 10. based IP address. The Host-Only Adapter should give you a 192. based IP address.

Kali Linux Playlist on my YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrHVSJmDPvlrpSSvDYBbeZpYpKYjNllEw

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrHVSJmDPvlqnvAmK3byvxV4wjxIzn_za

Installation of Metasploit into Kali Linux

The 2019.3 Metasploit in Kali Linux is NOT working.