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Tutor: <a href='https://centora.africa' target='_blank'>Centora</a>

What You will Learn Develop an advanced practical skillset in defeating all online threats, including advanced hackers, trackers, malware, and government mass surveillance. Kickstart your career in cybersecurity and become a cyber security specialist with the latest up-to-date information and methods. Master operating system security, privacy, and patching across Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Explore the threat landscape including Darknets, zero-day vulnerabilities, exploit kits, malware, phishing, and more. Gain expertise in encryption, security through physical and virtual isolation, and compartmentalization using sandboxes, virtual machines, and specialized OS like Whonix and Qubes OS. Understand nation-state secret tracking and hacking infrastructure, covering agencies like NSA, FBI, CIA, and others.

Syllabus

Course Content

1. Welcome and Introduction to the Instructor!

2. Security Quick Win!

3. Goals and Learning Objectives - Volume 1

4. Target Audience

5. Study Recommendations

6. Course updates

7. Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking Careers

1. Theory and Practical

2. Goals and Learning Objectives

3. Protect What You Value

4. What is Privacy, Anonymity and Pseudonymity

5. Security, Vulnerabilities, Threats and Adversaries

5.1 The Cyber Security Landscape Diagram

6. Asset Selection

7. Threat Modeling and Risk Assessments

8. Security vs Privacy vs Anonymity - Can we have it all

9. Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability - (Security Attributes)

10. Defense In Depth

11. The Zero Trust Model

1. Goals and Learning Objectives

2. Why You Need Security – The Value Of A Hack

3. The Top 3 Things You Need To Stay Safe Online

4. Security Bugs and Vulnerabilities - The Vulnerability Landscape

5. Hackers, crackers and cyber criminals

6. Malware, viruses, rootkits and RATs

7. Spyware, Adware, Scareware, PUPs & Browser hijacking

8. What is Phishing, Vishing and SMShing

9. Spamming & Doxing

10. Social engineering - Scams, cons, tricks and fraud

11. CPU Hijackers - Crypto Mining Malware and Cryptojackers

12. Darknets, Dark Markets and Exploit kits

13. Governments, spies and secret stuff part I

14. Governments, spies and secret stuff part II

15. Regulating encryption, mandating insecurity & legalizing spying

16. Trust & Backdoors

17. Censorship

18. Cyber Threat Intelligence – Stay Informed

Section 3 Resources

1. Goals and Learning Objectives

2. Symmetric Encryption

3. Asymmetric Encryption

4. Hash Functions

5. Digital Signatures

6. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport layer security (TLS)

7. SSL Stripping

8. HTTPS (HTTP Secure)

9. Digital Certificates

10. Certificate Authorities and HTTPS

11. End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)

12. Steganography

13. How Security and Encryption is Really Attacked

Section 4 Resources

1. Goals and Learning Objectives

2. Introduction to Setting up a Testing Environment Using Virtual Machines

3. Vmware

4. Virtual box

5. Kali Linux 2018

Section 5 Resources

1. Goals and Learning Objectives

2. Security Features and Functionality

3. Security Bugs and Vulnerabilities

4. Usage Share

5. Windows 10 - Privacy & Tracking

6. Windows 10 - Disable tracking automatically

7. Windows 10 - Tool Disable Windows 10 Tracking

8. Windows 10 – Cortana

9. Windows 10 – Privacy Settings

10. Windows 10 - WiFi Sense

11. Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 - Privacy & Tracking

12. Mac - Privacy & Tracking

13. Linux and Unix “like” Operating systems

14. General Use Operating Systems (Windows, MacOS and Linux)

15GENE~1

16PURE~1

17. Anonymity Focused Operating Systems (Tails and Whonix OS)

18. Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Focused Operating Systems

19MOBI~1

20. Linux - Debian 8 Jessie - Virtual box guest additions Issue

Section 6 Resources

1. Goals and Learning Objectives

2. The Importance of Patching

3. Windows 7 - Auto Update

4. Windows 8 & 8.1 - Auto Update

5. Windows 10 - Auto Update

6. Windows - Criticality and Patch Tuesday

7. Windows 7, 8, 8.1 & 10 - Automate the pain away from patching

8. Linux - Debian - Patching

9. Mac - Patching

10. Firefox - Browser and extension updates

11. Chrome - Browser and extension updates

12. IE and Edge - Browser and extention updates

13. Auto updates - The Impact to privacy and anonymity

Section 7 Resources

1. Goals and Learning Objectives

2. Information Disclosure and Identity Strategies for Social Media

3. Identify Verification and Registration

4. Behavioural Security Controls Against Social Threats (Phishing, Spam) Part 1

5. Behavioural Security Controls Against Social Threats (Phishing, Spam) Part 2

6. Technical Security Controls Against Social Threats (Phishing, Spam, Scam & Cons)

Section 9 Resources

1. Goals and Learning Objectives

2. Introduction to Isolation and Compartmentalization

3. Physical and Hardware Isolation - How to change the Mac Address

4. Physical and Hardware Isolation - Hardware Serials

5. Virtual Isolation

6. Dual Boot

7. Built-in Sandboxes and Application Isolation

8. Windows - Sandboxes and Application Isolation

9. Windows - Sandboxes and Application Isolation - Sandboxie

10. Linux - Sandboxes and Application Isolation

11. Mac - Sandboxes and Application Isolation

12. Virtual Machines

13. Virtual Machine Weaknesses

14. Virtual Machine Hardening

15. Whonix OS - Anonymous Operating system

16. Whonix OS - Weaknesses

17. Qubes OS

18. Security Domains, Isolation and Compartmentalization

Section 11 Resources

1. Congratulations

2. Certificate Of Completion for CPEs

3. Sample from Vol 2 - Router Vulnerability Scanning (Shodan, Qualys)

4. Sample from Vol 2 - Password cracking part 2

5. Sample from Vol 3 - Bypassing firewalls and HTTP proxies part 3

6. Sample from Vol 4 - Email clients, protocols and authentication

Cyber Security Mastery - The Complete Cybersecurity Bootcamp Volume 1

Course Info

Lessons 132

Duration 4 - 8 months

Tutor <a href='https://centora.africa' target='_blank'>Centora</a>

Language English

Students 16

Certificate Certificate of Completion

Cyber Security Mastery - The Complete Cybersecurity Bootcamp Volume 1

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