Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

Passwords continue to serve as the primary method of authentication for countless systems, applications, and online services. However, they also remain one of the most common targets for cybercriminals, making password security a critical aspect of modern cybersecurity. This course provides a practical understanding of password attacks, demonstrating how attackers compromise credentials and how organizations and individuals can implement effective defenses to strengthen authentication security.

This course begins with the fundamentals of password structures, cryptographic concepts, password hashing, and the legal and ethical considerations of password security. You will then explore common attack techniques, including brute-force, dictionary, and rainbow table attacks through hands-on demonstrations. The course continues with advanced attack methods such as credential stuffing, password spraying, and keylogging, before focusing on practical mitigation strategies, secure password management, multi-factor authentication, and alternatives to traditional passwords. Finally, you will analyze real-world case studies to understand how password-related breaches occur and how effective security controls can prevent them.

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand, identify, perform, and defend against common password attacks while implementing best practices to strengthen authentication and protect systems from credential-based threats.

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

Program Curriculum

  • Legal Considerations
  • Basics of Entropy, Hashing, and Cryptography for Password Security
  • Setting up the Environment
  • Cracking Your First Password
  • $3.5 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • What is a Brute Force Attack and How Does it Work
  • Tools & Commands for Brute Force Attacks
  • Cracking Weak Passwords
  • Brute Forcing Your First Real Password
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • What is a Dictionary Attack and How Does it Work?
  • Tools & Commands for Dictionary Attacks
  • Crack a Password Using a Dictionary Attack
  • Crack a Password Using a Dictionary Attack and Rules
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • What is a Rainbow Table Attack and How Does it Work?
  • What are Rainbow Tables?
  • Tools & Commands for Rainbow Attacks
  • Crack a Password Using a Rainbow Table
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • What Will be Covered in This Section?
  • Credential Stuffing
  • Password Spraying
  • Keylogger Attacks
  • Alternatives to Password Authentication
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Brute Force and Dictionary Attacks
  • Rainbow Table Attack
  • Keylogger
  • Other Considerations
  • Password Managers
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Case Studies
  • Chapter 7 Quiz
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Instructor

Zanidd

Zanidd has over 9 years of experience in Computer Science and is currently working as a Full Stack Engineer. He has worked in a variety of positions ranging from software engineer to security analyst and has a broad range of theoretical and practical experience relating to software and infrastructure creation and security. On his YouTube Channel and blog, he teaches and shows ethical hacking practices, makes software engineering videos and tutorials and reviews books on different topics ranging from security to infrastructure, software engineering and Kubernetes.

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