EC-Council | Hands-on Password Attacks and Security

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About Course

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

Prerequisites

    A Computing System with Mac, Linux or Windows as OS, 6 cores processor, 6 GB of RAM and 250 GB storage
    Familiarity with a command line interface
    Ability to create virtual machines and install Windows + Linux
    Browser: Firefox, Chrome
    VirtualBox, latest version
    Kali ISO

https://codered.eccouncil.org/course/hands-on-password-attacks-and-security

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