Cyber Security Labs (Beginner → Advanced)
Six hands-on labs: password cracking maths, phishing forensics, network sniffing, ciphers, web exploits and a full incident-response exam.
- 70
Lesson 1
Lab 1 — Password Cracking Maths
Work out the keyspace of a password, estimate crack time at real GPU speeds and design a passphrase that survives.
- 80
Lesson 2
Lab 2 — Phishing Forensics
Read raw email headers, unpick lookalike domains and score a suspicious message like a SOC analyst.
- 110
Lesson 3
Lab 3 — Reading Network Traffic
Interpret a packet capture, spot plaintext credentials, port scans and beaconing malware.
- 120
Lesson 4
Lab 4 — Cryptography Workshop
Break a Caesar and Vigenère cipher by frequency analysis, then reason about XOR, key exchange and why modern crypto holds.
- 150
Lesson 5
Lab 5 — Web Exploits and Secure Coding
Reproduce SQL injection and XSS on paper, then rewrite the vulnerable code properly.
- 200
Lesson 6
Lab 6 — Practical Exam: Ransomware Incident Response
A full graded scenario: contain a live ransomware outbreak, build the timeline and write the board report.