BCCS054

Ethical Hacking

L-T-P3-0-0 Credits3 Session2024-25 TypeTheory
Appears in 1 semester

B.Tech CSE (Cyber Security) · Sem 5 (Departmental Elective-II)

Syllabus

5 units · 40 lecture hours
Unit1

Unit 1

8 hrs

ETHICAL HACKING OVERVIEW & VULNERABILITIES Understanding the importance of security, Concept of ethical hacking and essential Terminologies Threat, Attack, Vulnerabilities, Target of Evaluation, Exploit. Phases involved in hacking

Unit2

Unit 2

8 hrs

FOOTPRINTING & PORT SCANNING Footprinting - Introduction to foot printing, Understanding the information gathering methodology of the hackers, Tools used for the reconnaissance phase, Port Scanning - Introduction, using port scanning tools, ping sweeps, Scripting Enumeration-Introduction, Enumerating windows OS & Linux OS

Unit3

Unit 3

8 hrs

SYSTEM HACKING Aspect of remote password guessing, Role of eavesdropping ,Various methods of password cracking, Keystroke Loggers, Understanding Sniffers ,Comprehending Active and Passive Sniffing, ARP Spoofing and Redirection, DNS and IP Sniffing, HTTPS Sniffing.

Unit4

Unit 4

8 hrs

HACKING WEB SERVICES & SESSION HIJACKING Web application vulnerabilities, application coding errors, SQL injection into Back-end Databases, cross-site scripting, cross-site request forging, authentication bypass, web services and related flaws, protective http headers. Understanding Session Hijacking, Phases involved in Session Hijacking,Types of Session Hijacking, Session Hijacking Tools

Unit5

Unit 5

8 hrs

HACKING WIRELESS NETWORKS Introduction To 802.11, Role Of WEP, Cracking WEP Keys, Sniffing Traffic, Wireless DOS Attacks, Wlanscanners, Wlansniffers,Hackingtools,Securing Wireless Network

Course Outcomes (COs)5 outcomes

After completion of the course student will be able to:

  1. CO1Understand vulnerabilities, mechanisms to identify vulnerabilities/threats/attacksK1, K2
  2. CO2Use tools to identify vulnerable entry pointsK3, K4
  3. CO3Identify vulnerabilities using sniffers at different layersK1, K2
  4. CO4Handle web application vulnerabilitiesK2, K3
  5. CO5Identify attacks in wireless networksK5, K6

Text Books

  1. Kimberly Graves, "Certified Ethical Hacker", Wiley India Pvt Ltd, 2010
  2. Michael T. Simpson, "Hands-on Ethical Hacking & Network Defense", Course Technology, 2010
  3. RajatKhare, "Network Security and Ethical Hacking", Luniver Press, 2006
  4. Ramachandran V, “BackTrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner’s Guide (3rd ed.).” Packt Publishing, 2011
  5. Thomas Mathew, "Ethical Hacking", OSB publishers, 2003
  6. Matthew Hickey, Jennifer Arcuri, “Hands on Hacking: Become an Expert at Next Gen Penetration Testing and Purple Teaming”, 1st Edition, Wiley, 2020.
  7. Jon Ericson, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition, NoStarch Press, 2008.

Official AKTU syllabus

This subject is on page 14 of the original AKTU PDF.

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