Learning Computer Security
and ethical hacking

Below you will find many openly-licensed educational resources (OER). Most are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, as specified. You are free to share, modify, and reuse, so long as you give attribution and also share derivative works under a compatible license.

These materials have been developed for use at Leeds Beckett University and affiliated institutions. If you are a student at Leeds Beckett, please access lab materials via MyBeckett, since you will also have permission to comment on the lab sheets, and have access to the correct versions for the modules you are enrolled on.

You are welcome to use these materials to teach yourself or others, so long as you adhere to the licensing. Please let me know if you make use of these.

Lectures playlist

Lab: Malware and Anti-malware (fun with Trojans)

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Lab: Firewalls and Software Updates

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Lab: Identity, Authentication, and Access Control

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Lab: Open Source Intelligence Gathering and Social Engineering

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Lab: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

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Lab: Introduction to Linux and security tools

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Lab: Malware and an Introduction to Metasploit and Payloads

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Lab: Vulnerabilities, exploits, and remote access payloads

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Lab: Information gathering: footprinting

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Lab: Information gathering: scanning

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Lab: From scanning to exploitation

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Lab: Vulnerability analysis

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Lab: Post-exploitation

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Lab: Lockpicking

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Lab: Introduction to Web security

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Lab: Identity, Authentication, and Unix

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Lab: Access Controls and Unix/Linux File Permissions

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Lab: Sandboxing, Virtualisation, and Mobile Device Security

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Lab: Network-based Identity Management and LDAP

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Lab: Understanding Software Vulnerabilities: C, Debugging Assembly, and Buffer Overflows

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Lab: Understanding Software Vulnerabilities: Injection Attacks, Race Conditions, and Format String Attacks

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Lab: Bug Hunting Using Fuzzing and Static Analysis

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Lab: Exploit Development

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Lab: Intrusion Detection and Prevention: Network and IDS Configuration and Monitoring using Snort

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Lab: Log Management: Monitoring and Making Sense of Logs

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Lab: Integrity Management: Protecting Against and Detecting Change

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Lab: Contingency Planning and Backups: SSH/SCP, Deltas, and Rsync

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Lab: Analysis of a Compromised System Part 1: Live (Online) Analysis and Data Collection

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Lab: Analysis of a Compromised System Part 2: Dead (Offline) Analysis

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Lab: Risk Management: Risk Assessment and Planning

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Lab: Malware Analysis

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Lab: Hacker vs Hacker

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Our main security-related degrees at Leeds Beckett are currently:

• BSc (Hons) Computer Forensics and Security
• MSc Digital Forensics and Security

Click the links above or send an email for more information.