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HACKER HIGH SCHOOL

Table Of Contents

Lesson 1: Being a Hacker

• 1.0 Introduction
• 1.1 Resources
• 1.1.1 Books
• 1.1.2 Magazines and Newspapers
• 1.1.3 Zines and Blogs
• 1.1.4 Forums and Mailing Lists
• 1.1.5 Newsgroups
• 1.1.6 Websites
• 1.1.7 Chat
• 1.1.8 P2P
• 1.2 Further Lessons

Lesson 2: Basic Commands in Linux and Windows

• 2.1. Introduction and Objectives
• 2.2. Requirements and Setup
• 2.2.1 Requirements
• 2.2.2 Setup
• 2.3. System Operation: WINDOWS
• 2.3.1 How to open an MS-DOS window
• 2.3.2 Commands and tools (Windows)
• 2.4. System Operations: Linux
• 2.4.1 How to open a console window
• 2.4.2 Commands and tools (Linux) 

Lesson 3: Ports and Protocols

• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Basic concepts of networks
• 3.2.1 Devices
• 3.2.2 Topologies
• 3.3 TCP/IP model
• 3.3.1 Introduction
• 3.3.2 Layers
• 3.3.2.1 Application
• 3.3.2.2 Transport
• 3.3.2.3 Internet
• 3.3.2.4 Network Access
• 3.3.3 Protocols
• 3.3.3.1 Application layer protocols
• 3.3.3.2 Transport layer Protocols
• 3.3.3.3 Internet layer Protocols
• 3.3.4 IP Addresses

Lesson 4: Services and Connections

• 4.0 Introduction
• 4.1 Services
• 4.1.1 HTTP and The Web
• 4.1.2 E-Mail – POP and SMTP
• 4.1.3 IRC
• 4.1.4 FTP
• 4.1.5 Telnet and SSH
• 4.1.6 DNS
• 4.1.7 DHCP
• 4.2 Connections
• 4.2.1 ISPs
• 4.2.2 Plain Old Telephone Service
• 4.2.3 DSL
• 4.2.4 Cable Modems

Lesson 5: System Identification

• 5.0 Introduction
• 5.1 Identifying a Server
• 5.1.1 Identifying the Owner of a domain
• 5.1.2 Identifying the IP address of a domain
• 5.2 Identifying Services
• 5.2.1 Ping and TraceRoute
• 5.2.2 Banner Grabbing
• 5.2.3 Identifying Services from Ports and Protocols
• 5.3 System Fingerprinting
• 5.3.1 Scanning Remote Computers

Lesson 6: Malware

• 6.0 Introduction
• 6.1 Viruses (Virii)
• 6.1.1 Introduction
• 6.1.2 Description
• 6.1.2.1 Boot Sector Viruses
• 6.1.2.2 The Executable File Virus
• 6.1.2.3 The Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) Virus
• 6.1.2.4 The Polymorphic Virus
• 6.1.2.5 The Macro Virus
• 6.2 Worms
• 6.2.1 Introduction
• 6.2.2 Description
• 6.3 Trojans and Spyware
• 6.3.1 Introduction
• 6.3.2 Description
• 6.4 Rootkits and Backdoors
• 6.4.1 Introduction
• 6.4.2 Description
• 6.5 Logicbombs and Timebombs
• 6.5.1 Introduction
• 6.5.2 Description
• 6.6 Countermeasures
• 6.6.1 Introduction
• 6.6.2 Anti-Virus
• 6.6.3 NIDS
• 6.6.4 HIDS
• 6.6.5 Firewalls
• 6.6.6 Sandboxes
• 6.7 Good Safety Advice

Lesson 7: Attack Analysis

• 7.0 Introduction
• 7.1 Netstat and Host Application Firewalls
• 7.1.1 Netstat
• 7.1.2 Firewalls
• 7.2 Packet Sniffers
• 7.2.1 Sniffing
• 7.2.2 Decoding Network Traffic
• 7.2.3 Sniffing Other Computers
• 7.2.4 Intrusion Detection Systems
• 7.3 Honeypots and Honeynets
• 7.3.1 Types of Honeypots
• 7.3.2 Building a Honeypot

Lesson 8: Digital Forensics

• 8.0 Introduction
• 8.1 Forensic Principals
• 8.1.0 Introduction
• 8.1.1 Avoid Contaminiation
• 8.1.2 Act Methodically
• 8.1.3 Chain of Evidence
• 8.1.4 Conclusion
• 8.2 Stand-alone Forensics
• 8.2.0 Introduction
• 8.2.1 Hard Drive and Storage Media Basics
• 8.2.2 Encryption, Decryption and File Formats
• 8.2.3 Finding a Needle in a Haystack
• 8.2.3.1 find
• 8.2.3.2 grep
• 8.2.3.3 strings
• 8.2.3.4 awk
• 8.2.3.5 The Pipe “|”
• 8.2.4 Making use of other sources
• 8.3 Network Forensics
• 8.3.0 Introduction
• 8.3.1 Firewall Logs

Lesson 9: Email Security

• 9.0 Introduction
• 9.1 How E-mail Works
• 9.1.1 E-mail Accounts
• 9.1.2 POP and SMTP
• 9.1.3 Web Mail
• 9.2 Safe E-mail Usage Part 1: Receiving
• 9.2.1 Spam, Phishing and Fraud
• 9.2.2 HTML E-Mail
• 9.2.3 Attachment Security
• 9.2.4 Forged headers
• 9.3 Safe E-mail Usage Part 2: Sending
• 9.3.1 Digital Certificates
• 9.3.2 Digital Signatures
• 9.3.3 Getting a certificate
• 9.3.4 Encryption
• 9.3.5 How does it work?
• 9.3.6 Decryption
• 9.3.7 Is Encryption Unbreakable?
• 9.4 Connection Security

Lesson 10: Web Security

• 10.1 Fundamentals of Web Security
• 10.1.1 How the web really works
• 10.1.2 Rattling the Locks
• 10.1.3 Looking through Tinted Windows - SSL
• 10.1.4 Having someone else do it for you – Proxies
• 10.2 Web Vulnerabilities
• 10.2.1 Scripting Languages
• 10.2.2 Top Ten Most Critical Web Application Vulnerabilities
• 10.2.3 Security Guidelines for Building Secure Web Applications
• 10.3 HTML Basics – A brief introduction
• 10.3.1 Reading HTML
• 10.3.2 Viewing HTML at its Source
• 10.3.3 Links
• 10.3.4 Proxy methods for Web Application Manipulation
• 10.4 Protecting your server
• 10.4.1 Firewall
• 10.4.2 Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
• 10.5 Secure Communications
• 10.5.1 Privacy and Confidentiality
• 10.5.2 Knowing if you are communicating securely
• 10.6 Methods of Verification
• 10.6.1 OSSTMM
• 10.6.2 OWASP

Lesson 11: Passwords

• 11.0 Introduction
• 11.1 Types of Passwords
• 11.1.1 Strings of Characters
• 11.1.2 Strings of Characters plus a token
• 11.1.3 Biometric Passwords
• 11.2 History of Passwords
• 11.3 Build a Strong Password
• 11.4 Password Encryption
• 11.5 Password Cracking (Password Recovery)
• 11.6 Protection from Password Cracking

Lesson 12: Legalities and Ethics

• 12.1. Introduction
• 12.2. Foreign crimes versus local rights
• 12.3. Crimes related to the TICs
• 12.4. Prevention of Crimes and Technologies of double use
• 12.4.1. The global systems of monitoring: concept "COMINT"
• 12.4.2. "ECHELON" System
• 12.4.3. The "CARNIVORE" system
• 12.5. Ethical Hacking
• 12.6. The 10 most common internet frauds