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Security for Hackers and Developers

Jared DeMott and Dr. Jared DeMott

Security for Hackers and Developers lays the foundation for anyone interested in creating secure software and systems, or anyone interested in hacking computer systems. Upon completion of this path, you will have learned how to discover, analyze, fix, as well as exploit vulnerabilities. Join Dr. DeMott on this cyber security learning journey, and help make your projects and networks safer.

What You'll Learn

  • The fundamentals of software security and a security-oriented development process
  • How and when to audit source code
  • How to use various fuzzing techniques
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    Security for Hackers and Developers lays the foundation for anyone interested in creating secure software and systems, or anyone interested in hacking computer systems. Upon completion of this path, you will have learned how to discover, analyze, fix, as well as exploit vulnerabilities. Join Dr. DeMott on this cyber security learning journey, and help make your projects and networks safer.

    What You'll Learn

  • The fundamentals of software security and a security-oriented development process
  • How and when to audit source code
  • How to use various fuzzing techniques
  • How to reverse compiled software using IDA Pro
  • How to detect and exploit bugs in software, including stack overflows, function pointer overwrites, off-by-ones, integer errors, uninitialized variable attacks, heap spraying, and ROP
  • How to detect and analyze exploit kits (EKs)
  • How to pull apart the malware payloads dropped by the initial exploit or EK
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