CS 414 Penetration Testing & Digital Forensics
The course would include both the concepts and tools of penetration testing and digital forensics. It will include use of scripting and tools of Kali Linux, and ethics of hacking, scanning tools, sniffers, network vulnerabilities, password cracking, spoofing, session hijacking, denial of service attacks, buffer overflows, programming exploits, and web application vulnerabilities. Other topics may include introduction to investigator’s tools, data acquisition methods, processing crime and incident scenes, working with Windows and Linux systems, recovering graphics files, forensic analysis and validation, forensics of virtual machines, networks and emails. Prerequisite: CS330 and CS341.