Ethical and Legality aspects of penetrating testing, technical foundations of hacking, foot printing and scanning, Enumeration and system hacking. Trojans and Backdoors, Web server enumeration Wireless technologies, security and attacks, Firewalls, IDS and Honeypots. Buffer overflows, viruses and worms. Physical security and social engineering.

An Assignment weighted at 100% (Learning outcomes 1,2,3,4)
Report of 3000 words detailing underpinning research, evaluation and implementation of secure systems and identification of weaknesses and vulnerability.
A further opportunity to enrol on the EC-Council Certified ethical hacker program is available.

Access to the digital Forensic Lab
Access to packet capturing software (wireshark, Packetyzer)
Virtual Environment (VMWare)

A one day in K113 to use specialist hacking tools ¿ 7 hours.
Students will have participated in an award induction workshop where they will learn how to use the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) employed for the study of this module. Subsequently students will work through the module material provided on the VLE at a pace suggested within the VLE for the module. The material will include activities and review questions that allow students to assimilate the concepts and skills required by the module. Students will be encouraged to discuss relevant aspects within discussion forums that are part of the VLE. The forums will allow discussion with a student's peer group as well as the module tutor.
Google scholars, E-books, Research papers and journals will be used to support study on the module.

Krutz, R. Vines R, The CEH Prep Guide, John Wiley & Sons 2009, ISBN: 978-0-470-13592-1
Dulaney E, CompTIA Security+ Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons 2011 ISBN: 1118014731
Graves, K, Certified Ethical Hacker, John Wiley & Sons 2010 ISBN: 0470525207

To attempt this module, you must pass the following modules or have RPL agreed by the course leader for this module: COCS60532