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Johns Hopkins University

Advanced Cybersecurity Topics

Jason Crossland

Instructor: Jason Crossland

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

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48 hours to complete
3 weeks at 16 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Intermediate level

Recommended experience

48 hours to complete
3 weeks at 16 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Defend against rootkits, OS vulnerabilities, and buffer overflow attacks.

  • Identify and exploit race conditions while implementing mitigation strategies.

  • Apply post-exploitation techniques, including privilege escalation and pivoting.

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October 2024

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14 assignments

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Introduction to Ethical Hacking Specialization
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There are 6 modules in this course

The specialization “Introduction to Ethical Hacking” helps you to master essential cybersecurity skills across three comprehensive courses. Begin with Cybersecurity Fundamentals, covering motives, penetration testing, cryptography, information gathering, and social engineering. Progress to Advanced Techniques exploring mobile security, DNS attacks, network exploitation, and web exploitation. Conclude with Advanced Topics on rootkits, OS security, buffer overflow, race conditions, and post-exploitation strategies, preparing you for diverse cybersecurity challenges.

What's included

4 readings

Discusses the history, types, forms, and goals of rootkits. Covers system calls, kernel vs. user space, hooking, loadable kernel modules, testing system calls, and tweaking files.

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7 videos5 readings3 assignments

Discusses the goals, purposes, techniques, and tools used for conducting OS security activities. Covers trusted computing, design, access control, SETUID, certification service, authenticate boot service, root shell, password shadow file, and single-user mode.

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6 videos5 readings3 assignments

Discusses the goals, objectives, history, methods/approaches, and tools used to conduct buffer overflow activities. Covers “smashing the stack,” X86 Architecture, memory organization, stack behavior, Seg Fault example, modifying execution flow, shell code, and null characters.

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10 videos5 readings3 assignments

Discusses the goals, objectives, history, methods/approaches, and tools used to conduct Return-Oriented Programming (ROP) & Race Condition activities.

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1 video3 readings2 assignments1 plugin

Discusses of the history, types, forms, goals, and tools used for privilege escalation activities. Covers preventing and examples of escalation, island hopping/pivoting, maintaining persistence/C2, data hiding, and maintaining your presence (i.e., log control).

What's included

5 videos5 readings3 assignments

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Jason Crossland
Johns Hopkins University
6 Courses194 learners

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