C S 53C - ETHICAL HACKING
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- Recent Semesters
- Winter 2027
- Class Size
- 40 students
- Credits
- 4.5
- Winter 2027 Sections
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- Transfers To
- CSU
- Description
- Surveys current techniques used by malicious hackers to attack computers and networks, and develops the defenses that security professionals use to defend Windows and Linux systems from such attacks. Topics will be presented in the context of legal restrictions and ethical guidelines. Hands-on labs, playing the role of both attacker and defender, using port scans, footprinting, buffer overflow exploits, SQL injection, privilege escalation, Trojans, and backdoors.