Ethical Hacking for Cyber Security assiginment
Budget: £10 – £20 GBP
Requirements
For the practical part of this assignment, you will have to build three Virtual Machines
(VM):
A Linux Server
You could use CentOS or Ubuntu Server
Minimum configuration required
DNS
An additional service of your own choice (e.g. DHCP, FTP, SMTP, SNMP
etc)
A Client
Could be either Windows (Visa, 7, 8, 10 etc) or Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu etc)
You could create multiple copies of the client’s VM if you require more clients
to demonstrate an attack
Attacker machine
Kali Linux (the most recent version is highly recommended)
Assignment Tasks and Deliverables
The main submission is a single individual report consisting of two parts as follows:
Part A
In this first part of the assignment, you are required to:
Provide a summary of the configuration steps on the server and client. Include
screenshots to evident functionality at the client-side. Discuss the rationale
behind service selection and configuration. (10%)
Demonstrate a minimum of 2 attack against each of the two services configured.
Any further and complex attacks will attract more marks. Log all the important
and offensive events against your target including attacks detected, services’
logs nature, origin of the attack and damage caused. Support your
demonstration with screenshots. (35%)
Critically reflect on countermeasures and prevention mechanisms applied to
mitigate against your attacks. (15%)
Part B
In the second part of the report, you are required to write a short position paper to
critically analyse and reflect on recent state-of-the-art attacks and hacking
techniques, followed by a discussion on possible countermeasures. (weights 40%)
Your paper should consider the following guidance and contain the following
subtitles as a minimum:
Title page and Abstract
Introduction
The nature of the brief/commission and the topic should be briefly outlined
and defined alongside details of how the paper is organised.
Scope: how did you select the attacks/techniques in this paper? E.g. most
recent attacks, wireless attacks, VoIP attacks, DNS attacks etc
Main body
Critical discussion, reflection and analysis
Conclusions
A brief summary of the key findings established from your research.
References.
A full list of references used within the paper should be provided. The Harvard
Style of referencing should be applied throughout the assignment.
For the practical part of this assignment, you will have to build three Virtual Machines
(VM):
A Linux Server
You could use CentOS or Ubuntu Server
Minimum configuration required
DNS
An additional service of your own choice (e.g. DHCP, FTP, SMTP, SNMP
etc)
A Client
Could be either Windows (Visa, 7, 8, 10 etc) or Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu etc)
You could create multiple copies of the client’s VM if you require more clients
to demonstrate an attack
Attacker machine
Kali Linux (the most recent version is highly recommended)
Assignment Tasks and Deliverables
The main submission is a single individual report consisting of two parts as follows:
Part A
In this first part of the assignment, you are required to:
Provide a summary of the configuration steps on the server and client. Include
screenshots to evident functionality at the client-side. Discuss the rationale
behind service selection and configuration. (10%)
Demonstrate a minimum of 2 attack against each of the two services configured.
Any further and complex attacks will attract more marks. Log all the important
and offensive events against your target including attacks detected, services’
logs nature, origin of the attack and damage caused. Support your
demonstration with screenshots. (35%)
Critically reflect on countermeasures and prevention mechanisms applied to
mitigate against your attacks. (15%)
Part B
In the second part of the report, you are required to write a short position paper to
critically analyse and reflect on recent state-of-the-art attacks and hacking
techniques, followed by a discussion on possible countermeasures. (weights 40%)
Your paper should consider the following guidance and contain the following
subtitles as a minimum:
Title page and Abstract
Introduction
The nature of the brief/commission and the topic should be briefly outlined
and defined alongside details of how the paper is organised.
Scope: how did you select the attacks/techniques in this paper? E.g. most
recent attacks, wireless attacks, VoIP attacks, DNS attacks etc
Main body
Critical discussion, reflection and analysis
Conclusions
A brief summary of the key findings established from your research.
References.
A full list of references used within the paper should be provided. The Harvard
Style of referencing should be applied throughout the assignment.