Welcome to Vulnerability Assessments.
I'm your instructor, Josh Mason.
And today we're going to get into some vulnerabilities.
We'll describe what all the different types
of vulnerabilities that you might see
might be working with in a penetration test
or just when dealing with cybersecurity.
And then we'll get into some case studies.
We'll look at some bugs, some past, known, serious
vulnerabilities, and a current one,
and then we'll get into a couple of labs
where we'll do some research, we'll run some scans,
and we'll get hands-on into what we're talking about.
There's going to be some basics about networking concepts
and the basics of cybersecurity that have been
covered in previous courses.
If at any point there is something
where you're confused, if you can't keep up
and it's not making sense, then go back
and feel free to go watch those videos again
so that it makes sense and then come join us when you're ready.
By the end of this course, you'll
be able to describe vulnerabilities
at all levels of the OSI model.
You'll be able to recognize the CVE reports
and the National Vulnerability Database submissions,
and you'll be able to parse through them
and make sense of them when we're all done.
You'll also be able to understand non-technical
vulnerabilities--
the Layer 8 problem.
Also, you should be able to describe vulnerability
management, perform some network auditing,
and perform vulnerability research on your own.
I say this with every course that I teach.
If you don't have permission to run scans or to--
on a penetration test on a system,
then you should not be touching it with those tools.
It's not yours, and there could be serious repercussions
on the owner and on yourself.
So if it's not yours and you don't have permission,
don't touch it.
With that, let's get into the rest of the course.