If a bad guy can escalate the privileges of a regular user, he’ll have greater access to the system. In this video, you’ll learn about privilege escalation and how to mitigate privilege escalation.
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By changing a few bits inside of a network packet, you can cause a number of things to occur. In this video, you’ll learn about Xmas tree attacks and you’ll see what happens when I run a Christmas tree attack against my own router.
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Why would the bad guys hack into your computer when they could just give you a call? In this video, you’ll learn about vishing (voice phishing), and how the bad guys can even fool you into calling them yourself.
The bad guys know that the easiest way to steal your information is to have you type it in for them yourself. In this video, you’ll learn how phishing happens and things you can do to protect against phishing and spear phishing.
Unsolicited emails are an ongoing security concern. In this video, you’ll learn about spam, spim, and spit.
The bad guys are very good at providing fake information to us. In this video, you’ll learn how spoofing works and how pharming and phishing have become common ways to illicitly obtain our private information.
Even if the bad guys can’t hack into your system, they may be able to temporarily morph into something that looks exactly like you. In this video, you’ll learn how replay attacks can be used to gain inappropriate access to devices and how software developers can protect against replay attacks.
Denial of service attacks are very difficult to defend against. In this video, you’ll learn about denial of service attacks and you’ll see how one of the first DoS attacks, the Smurf attack, was able to disrupt services on many networks.
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One challenge with modern network security is protecting against man-in-the-middle attacks. In this video, you’ll learn about man-in-the-middle and I’ll demonstrate a live MiTM attack.
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The virus developers know that the secret to remaining active is to hide as much as possible. In this video, you’ll learn how virus programmers use obfuscation to create armored viruses.
