LD7010 Ethical Hacking for Cyber Security

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.

A full list of references used within the paper should be provided. The Harvard Style of referencing should be applied throughout the assignment.