Course 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.

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

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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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