About Course
Learn a practical skill-set in defeating all online threats, including – advanced hackers, trackers, malware, zero days, exploit kits, cybercriminals and more.
Become a Cyber Security Specialist – Go from a beginner to advanced in this easy to follow expert course.
Covering all major platforms – Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, MacOS and Linux.
This course covers the fundamental building blocks of your required skill set – You will understand the threat and vulnerability landscape through threat modeling and risk assessments.
We explore the Darknet and mindset of the cyber criminal. Covering malware, exploit kits, phishing, zero-day vulnerabilities and much more.
You will learn about the global tracking and hacking infrastructures that nation states run. Covering the NSA, FBI, CIA, GCHQ, China’s MSS and other intelligence agencies capabilities.
You will understand the foundations of operating system security and privacy functionality. A close look at the new Windows 10 privacy issues and how to best mitigate them.
There is a complete easy to follow crash course on encryption, how encryption can be bypassed and what you can do to mitigate the risks.
Master defenses against phishing, SMShing, vishing, identity theft, scam, cons and other social engineering threats.
Finally we cover the extremely important, but underused security control of isolation and compartmentalization. Covering sandboxes, application isolation, virtual machines, Whonix and Qubes OS.
This is volume 1 of 4 of your complete guide to cyber security privacy and anonymity.
What Will You Learn?
- An advanced practical skillset in defeating all online threats - advanced hackers, trackers, malware and all Internet nastiness & govenment mass surveillance.
- Start a career in cyber security. Become a cyber security specialist.
- The very latest up-to-date information and methods.
- We cover operating system security, privacy, and patching - On Windows, MacOS and Linux.
- Explore the threat landscape - Darknets, dark markets, zero day vulnerabilities, exploit kits, malware, phishing and much more.
- You will master encryption in an easy to follow crash course.
- Go in-depth into security through physical and virtual isolation and compartmentalization. Covering sandboxes, isolation, virtual machines, Whonix and Qubes OS.
- You will learn about nation state secret tracking and hacking infrastructure.
- A certificate of completion is available signed by the instructor Nathan House so CPE credits can be claimed.
Course Content
Introduction
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Welcome and Introduction to the Instructor
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Security Quick Win
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Goals and Learning Objectives – Volume 1
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Target Audience
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Study Recommendations
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Course updates
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Know Yourself – The Threat And Vulnerability Landscape
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Theory and Practical
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Goals and Learning Objectives
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Protect What You Value
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What is Privacy, Anonymity and Pseudonymity
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Security, Vulnerabilities, Threats and Adversaries
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Threat Modeling and Risk Assessments
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Security vs Privacy vs Anonymity – Can we have it all?
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Defense In Depth
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The Zero Trust Model
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Know Your Enemy – The Current Threat And Vulnerability Landscape
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Goals and Learning Objectives
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Why You Need Security – The Value Of A Hack
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The Top 3 Things You Need To Stay Safe Online
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Security Bugs and Vulnerabilities – The Vulnerability Landscape
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Hackers, crackers and cyber criminals
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Malware, viruses, rootkits and RATs
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Spyware, Adware, Scareware, PUPs & Browser hijacking
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What Is Phishing , Vishing And SMShing
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Spamming & Doxing
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Social engineering – Scams, cons, tricks and fraud
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Darknets, Dark Markets and Exploit kits
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Governments, spies and secret stuff part I
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Governments, spies and secret stuff part II
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Regulating encryption, mandating insecurity & legalizing spying
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Trust & Backdoors
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Censorship
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Cyber Threat Intelligence – Stay Informed
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Encryption Crash Course
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Goals and Learning Objectives
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Symmetric Encryption
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Asymmetric Encryption
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Hash Functions
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Digital Signatures
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport layer security (TLS)
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SSL Stripping
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HTTPS (HTTP Secure)
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Digital Certificates
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Certificate Authorities and HTTPS
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End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)
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Steganography
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How Security and Encryption is Really Attacked
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Setting Up A Testing Environment Using Virtual Machine(LAB)
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Goals and Learning Objectives
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Introduction to Setting up a Testing Environment Using Virtual Machines
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Vmware
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Virtual box
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Kali Linux 2018
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Operating System Security & Privacy (Windows Vs Mac Os X Vs Linux)
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Goals and Learning Objectives
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Security Features and Functionality
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Security Bugs and Vulnerabilities
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Usage Share
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Windows 10 – Privacy & Tracking
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Windows 10 – Disable tracking automatically
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Windows 10 – Tool : Disable Windows 10 Tracking
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Windows 10 – Cortana
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Windows 10 – Privacy Settings
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Windows 10 – WiFi Sense
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Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 – Privacy & Tracking
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Mac – Privacy & Tracking
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Linux and Unix “like” Operating systems
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General Use Operating Systems (Windows, MacOS and Linux)
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Linux – Debian 8 Jessie – Virtual box guest additions Issue
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Security Bugs and Vulnerabilities
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Goals and Learning Objectives
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The Importance of Patching
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Windows 7 – Auto Update
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Windows 8 & 8.1 – Auto Update
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Windows 10 – Auto Update
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Windows – Criticality and Patch Tuesday
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Windows 7, 8, 8.1 & 10 – Automate the pain away from patching
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Linux – Debian – Patching
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Mac – Patching
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Firefox – Browser and extension updates
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Chrome – Browser and extension updates
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IE and Edge – Browser and extention updates
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Auto updates – The Impact to privacy and anonymity
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Reducing Threat Privilege
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Goals and Learning Objectives – Removing Privilege
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Windows 7 – Not using admin
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Windows 8 and 8.1 – Not using admin
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Windows 10 – Not using admin
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Social Engineering and Social Media Offence and Defence
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Goals and Learning Objectives
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Information Disclosure and Identity Strategies for Social Media
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Identify Verification and Registration
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Behavioural Security Controls Against Social Threats (Phishing, Spam) Part 1
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Behavioural Security Controls Against Social Threats (Phishing, Spam) Part 2
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Technical Security Controls Against Social Threats (Phishing, Spam, Scam & Cons)
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Security Domains
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Goals and Learning Objectives
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Security Domains
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Security Through Isolation and Compartmentalization
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Goals and Learning Objectives
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Introduction to Isolation and Compartmentalization
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Physical and Hardware Isolation – How to change the Mac Address
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Physical and Hardware Isolation – Hardware Serials
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Virtual Isolation
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Dual Boot
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Built-in Sandboxes and Application Isolation
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Windows – Sandboxes and Application Isolation
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Windows – Sandboxes and Application Isolation – Sandboxie
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Linux – Sandboxes and Application Isolation
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Mac – Sandboxes and Application Isolation
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Virtual Machines
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Virtual Machine Weaknesses
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Virtual Machine Hardening
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Whonix OS – Anonymous Operating system
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Whonix OS – Weaknesses
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Qubes OS
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Security Domains, Isolation and Compartmentalization
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Wrap Up
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Congratulations
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Certificate Of Completion for CPEs
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Sample from Vol 2 – Router Vulnerability Scanning (Shodan, Qualys)
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Sample from Vol 2 – Password cracking part 2
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Sample from Vol 3 – Bypassing firewalls and HTTP proxies part 3
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Sample from Vol 4 – Email clients, protocols and authentication
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Assignment: Securing a Web Application Against Common Cyber Threats
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