Our Cybersecurity wing hosted a full-day Ethical Hacking 101 session that drew participants from five different departments. The event was held in CSE Lab 204, equipped with dedicated machines running Kali Linux.
Topics Covered
- Fundamentals of ethical hacking and penetration testing methodology
- Network scanning with Nmap and Wireshark
- Web vulnerability demos: SQL injection, XSS, CSRF
- Introduction to CTF challenges and platforms
- Defensive coding practices
Highlights
The session concluded with a mini CTF where teams competed to find flags hidden across a local practice server. The winning team solved all 8 challenges in under 40 minutes!
Our next session — Advanced Exploitation with Metasploit — is scheduled for next semester.