4. Introduction to Cybersecurity

An introductory course on web security at Arizona State University, the course contains several modules, mainly including:

  • Program Misuse: Linux commandline, privilege escalation

  • Web fundamentals: http, server, intercept

  • Assembly: registers, memory, control flow

  • Cryptography: Symmetric/Asymmetric encryption, hashing, trust

  • Web security: Command/HTML/SQL/Stack injection

The course is mainly based on challenges, supplemented by lectures and reading materials. The challenges are developed in the form of CTF, and the difficulty increases in order.

For hackers with weak foundations, getting stuck is a normal phenomenon. If you encounter difficulties in solving the problem, you can seek help from the Discord Server given in the Chat column on the homepage.

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