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Week 1

Day 1

  • Administration
  • Details about the Internet / architecture
  • Who are you?
  • What is the cloud?
  • Cloud vs On-Premises (On-Prem) and Hybrid
  • Service Types: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • Operating System overview
  • Version Control Basics & GitHub
  • Using Discord
  • Installing Python & Visual Studio Code

Day 2

  • Hardware & Brief history of computers
  • CPU (Cores/Threads)
  • RAM / Memory
  • GPU (lots of cores)
  • SSD/HDD
  • Choosing components when building or deploying a server
  • Cloud Pricing: AWS Pricing Calculator

Day 3

  • Operating Systems: History, UNIX family: Linux, BSD, MacOS, Android, iOS, Windows
  • Virtualization, Virtual Machines, and AMIs (Amazon Machine Images)
  • Databases: Relational (SQL) and Non-relational (NoSQL)
  • Shared Responsibility Model Basics
  • Object Storage (S3 / Simple Storage Service)
  • x86 vs ARM (in light details)
  • ping, traceroute / tracert
  • EC2 Lab - Deploying a virtual machine

Day 4

  • Networking Basics (IPv4)
  • Ports Basics
  • HTTP & Request/Response basics
  • Firewalls (The concept)
  • Python interpreter & HTTP module
  • EC2 Lab Continued - Connecting to it

Week 2 Topics

Day 1

  • Virtualbox & Virtual Machines
  • Linux Kernel Overview
  • Shells
  • Directory Structure
  • Basic Commands: man, ls, cd, pwd, mkdir
  • Using sudo
  • Package Management (yum, apt, and others)

Day 2

  • More Basic Commands: touch, cat, more, less, head, tail, cp, rm, mv, rmdir, find
  • Piping data with |
  • Creating files (file redirection) with >
  • Text Editors: vim basics, nano, and mention of gedit/visual studio code
  • Understanding output of --help and arguments from manpages.
  • Contents of /sbin directory
  • Symbolic Links
  • CommandLineFu.com

Day 3

  • Working with jobs: Ctrl-Z (suspend), fg, bg, jobs
  • Working with users/groups
  • Understanding /etc/passwd
  • Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - /bin, /boot, /dev, etc.

Day 4

  • File Permission basics with chmod and chown.
  • Understanding the output of ls -al
  • Managing Processes with ps, top, htop, grep, kill
  • Signals (man signal)
  • Systemd and services with systemctl.
  • Networking basics with ip (and the older/deprecated ifconfig)
  • Log files and /var.
  • Modern Unix Replacements

Week 3

Day 1

Core Topics

  • Basics of using Bash
  • Setting the PATH environment variable and how it works.
  • Creating/removing aliases in Bash with the alias and unalias commands.
  • Listing environment variables with env and setting them with export.
  • Using which to get location of a commands.
  • echo,
  • Accessing a variable e.g. echo $HOME
  • Installing git & fzf
  • Running scripts from ./
  • Making a file executable with chmod +x

Supplementary Topics

Day 2

Core Topics

  • Reading and writing Bash/shell scripts.
  • Running commands with $( ) e.g. $(whoami).
  • File permissions with chmod using symbolic (u+x, g-rw, o+rwx, ug-x, etc.) or octal (700, 444, 111, etc.) notation.
  • Conditionals with if, elif, and else.
  • Persisting aliases and changes to PATH by editing .bashrc.
  • Using curl.

Supplementary Topics

Day 3

Core Topics

  • Base-10 (Decimal) Revision, Base-8 (Octal), Base-16 (Hexadecimal/Hex), and Base-2 (Binary)

  • Know how to count to 16 in binary and hex.

  • Converting between bases

  • ASCII

  • Networking Concepts: Modems, Routers, Switches

  • Internet Protocol (IPv4 & IPv6)

  • TCP & UDP (Connection vs Connectionless)

  • Ports

  • IP Subnetting Basics (History & Classful Addressing)

  • Signed vs Unsigned numbers

  • Integer Overflows (and the Gangnam Style viewcount bug)

  • Example of integer overflow (just for demonstration purposes, you don't need to know C for the course)

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main() {  // Press Ctrl-C to exit if it gets stuck looping forever.
  //int counter = 0;  // Example of how the counter should work without an overflow.
  //unsigned char counter = 0; // 8-bit. Resets to 0 when it overflows above 256.
  char counter = 0;  // 8-bit. Overflows to -128 when it overflows.

  for (counter = 0; counter <= 300; counter++) {
    printf("Value: %d\n", counter);

    // Sleep for 50 milliseconds.
    usleep(50 * 1000);
  }
}

Supplementary Topics

  • Software Bugs: Y2K, Knight Capital, 787 Dreamliner overflow, 737 MAX, Mars Orbiter, 2038 Bug (Epochalypse)
  • What packets look like in tcpdump.
  • What files look like in a hex viewer (such as xxd or hexyl)
  • Basics of how a disassembler works.

Day 4

Core Topics

  • Line Endings (LF aka 0x0a on Linux/MacOS, vs CRLF aka 0x0d0a on Windows)
00000000: 7468 6973 2069 730a 610a 7465 7374 0a74  this is.a.test.t
00000010: 6f0a 7365 650a 6966 0a6c 696e 6566 6565  o.see.if.linefee
00000020: 6473 0a61 7265 0a73 7469 6c6c 0a62 7567  ds.are.still.bug
00000030: 6765 640a 696e 0a6e 6f74 6570 6164 0a    ged.in.notepad.

vs

00000000: 7468 6973 0d0a 6973 0d0a 616e 6f74 6865  this..is..anothe
00000010: 720d 0a74 6573 740d 0a6f 660d 0a6e 6577  r..test..of..new
00000020: 6c69 6e65 0d0a 6368 6172 6163 7465 7273  line..characters

Supplementary Topics

Week 4

Day 1

Core Topics

  • Revision
  • More CIDR & Subnetting
  • VPC Basics

Supplementary Topics

Day 2

Core Topics

  • Boolean Algebra Basics (AND, OR, and NOT)
  • More Networking & Subnetting
  • An IP address is just a 32-bit integer. e.g. http://2899908654/ and http://0xacd9182e/
  • Using netstat to show active connections.
  • Security - Network Discovery (nmap)
  • Router settings: DHCP, Subnets, Route Tables, NAT (Network Address Translation) & Ports

Supplementary Topics

  • None, just practice the labs on Canvas.

Day 3

Core Topics

  • Cyber Kill Chain (Overview)
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Risk & Security Trade-offs
  • Responsible Disclosure
  • Bug Bounties & HackerOne
  • Zero-days / 0days.
  • APT Groups
  • White, grey, and black hats.
  • Red (Offense) & Blue (Defense) Teams
  • Social Engineering Attacks
  • VPC Subnetting Lab

Supplementary Topics

Day 4

Core Topics

  • CIA Triad - Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability
  • Encryption Basics. Classical ciphers (rot13/Caesar cipher), brief mention of AES.
  • At-rest vs In-transit
  • Hashing
  • Password Managers (BitWarden, LastPass, KeePass, etc)
  • Storing Passwords: Salting & Pepper. Why MD5 is bad, why bcrypt, scrypt, and Argon2 are good.
  • Identifying Fraudulent Emails - FBI's mailserver hacked a few days prior
  • MD5 and its problems (fast & collisions)

Supplementary Topics

Week 5

Day 1

Core Topics

  • TryHackMe
  • Bruteforcing: icloud & instagram bugs
  • Estimation of time required to bruteforce all 10-char passwords
  • Analysis of an attack. Spammer using an open mailing form to send spam. Analyzing webserver logs to identify spammer.
  • Question about people who fall for scam apps. Techniques to identify scams.
  • CVE
  • ATT&CK & D3FEND
  • SecLists on GitHub - Leaked Passwords
  • Encoding / Decoding
  • How to create a hash of something in Python using hashlib

Day 2

Core Topics

  • Python - Writing a small password strength checking program
  • Control Flow (if/elif/else)
  • Functions
  • Modules

Supplementary Topics

Day 3

Core Topics

  • More Python
  • Containers: Lists, Tuples, Dictionaries
  • Javascript/Node Basics: Variables/Lists (arrays) and surface similarity with Python
  • How minifying code saves bandwidth.
  • Debugging
  • Files (open and close)

Supplementary Topics

Day 4

Core Topics

  • More Python
  • Loops (for & while)
  • time.sleep(10)
  • random library
  • string library
  • Python Conventions / Style Guide (PEP8)
  • Linting

Week 6

Day 1

Core Topics

  • More Python
  • Software Licenses
  • Markdown
  • Forking & Other GitHub features
  • with keyword in Python (Known as context managers) for opening/closing resources.
  • socket library basics and how network services communicate
  • File Descriptors and the /proc/<process_id>/fd directory.

Day 2

Core Topics

  • More Python
  • /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf
  • os module and dangers of using os.system(...)
  • Virtual Environments (venv module)
  • JSON basics
  • Exception Basics - Creating and raising a custom exception
  • netstat Basics

Supplementary Topics

Day 3

Core Topics

  • More Python & how network services work
  • More JSON
  • Using FastAPI to create an API
  • DevOps

Supplementary Topics

Day 4

Core Topics

  • Concurrency/threading basics
  • Compiling basics (download, unzip, ./configure, make, run) - Compiled Python & redis
  • Software Testing basics with pytest. Brief example of test driven development
  • Database Basics (NoSQL)
  • Basics of using redis

Supplementary Topics

Week 7

Day 1

Core Topics

  • SQL Basics
  • Data Manipulation Language (DML): SELECT, FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, Comments
  • INNER JOIN basics
  • Date ranges with BETWEEN

Supplementary Topics

Day 2

Core Topics

Supplementary Topics

  • None today. See main.py in this repo.

Day 3

Core Topics

  • Entity-Relationship Diagrams
  • Database Diagrams (and relationships)
  • Database Normalization
  • ACID
  • SQL: INSERT
  • Amazon RDS (Brief mention)
  • Continued building API with FastAPI & SQLite with sakila database.

Supplementary Topics

Day 4

Core Topics

  • OOP Basics
  • Amazon RDS
  • MariaDB & PostgreSQL
  • Finishing up API server (deploy to EC2)
  • Using scp.

Supplementary Topics

Week 8

Day 1

Core Topics

Supplementary Topics

Day 2

Core Topics

Supplementary Topics

Day 3

Core Topics

  • Assignment Help
  • Cloud Practitioner Exam Prep
  • Anki
  • Using IAM, S3 & AWS CLI Basics

Supplementary Topics

Day 4

Core Topics

  • ssh, scp, rsync & public key cryptography revision
  • iptables basics
  • More S3 & awscli
  • HTTP GET/POST revision & Insomnia REST

Supplementary Topics

Week 9

Day 1

Core Topics

Supplementary Topics

Day 2

Core Topics

  • DNS in depth
  • Registrars, Root Servers, Hosting, Resolvers
  • ccTLD, gTLDs, Internationalized Domain Names & issues with them
  • whois & dig (again)
  • Zone Files (basics)
  • DNS Based Load Balancing (Round-Robin DNS)
  • NS, A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, SOA, TXT, SPF, PTR records
  • Load Balancer Types (Application, Network), more detail tomorrow

Supplementary Topics

Day 3

Core Topics

  • Understanding metrics for scaling
  • Vertical vs Horizontal Scaling
  • EC2 Instance Types
  • DB Replicas & Sharding
  • Route53

Day 4

Core Topics

  • More Git
  • Container Basics (ECS, ECR, Fargate)
  • Lambda Basics

Week 10

Day 1

Core Topics

  • DNS debugging case study
  • Load balancer & other AWS services pricing
  • Popular/common DockerHub images
  • More containers / Docker
  • HTML/CSS Basics

Supplementary Topics

Day 2

Core Topics

  • Amazon Aurora Basics
  • Docker Compose & container management/orchestration
  • docker-compose.yml file syntax (services, ports, images)
  • Getting services/containers to talk to each other
  • Using a cache

Supplementary Topics

Day 3

Core Topics

  • More Docker Compose
  • ElastiCache
  • Elastic Block Store (EBS) with EC2
  • EC2 Instance Stores vs EBS
  • Creating/Attaching
  • Filesystem Basics, Mounting/Unmounting
  • lsblk, xxd /dev/xvdf | less, parted -l, mkdir /mnt/mydisk, mount /dev/xvdf /mnt/mydisk, df -h, create files on disk, umount /mnt/mydisk

Supplementary Topics

Day 4

Core Topics

  • Storage Types (SSD, Magnetic, Tape)
  • EBS Volume Types
  • More on Filesystem & Types
  • Network File Storage (NFS) Basics & Elastic File System (EFS)
  • Block Storage vs Object Storage
  • More S3
  • Glacier & Archival

Supplementary Topics

Week 11

Public Holiday - No Class on 1st Day of Week

Day 1

Core Topics

  • Group Exercise review of AWS products for Compute, Storage, Databases, Security, IoT, and Frontend/Web/Mobile
  • Intro to CloudWatch
  • Debugging & benefits of logging (example with 2degrees topups & payment providers)
  • CloudTrail basics

Day 2

Core Topics

  • Gathering metrics w/ CloudWatch (CPU, Memory, Storage usage)
  • Security Groups & Firewall revision
  • Web-server logs & deeper dive into network traffic with Wireshark (basics)
  • Monitoring Infrastructure Lab (CloudWatch)

Supplementary Topics

Day 3

Core Topics

Supplementary Topics

Week 12

Day 1 Waitangi Day - Again no class

Days 2 & 3

Core Topics

  • Knowledge Checks
  • Practice Preparation for Cloud Practitioner Exam

Day 4

Core Topics

  • Student Live Demos of awscli & AWS services
  • Test

Day 5

Core Topics

  • Careers & Industry Event
  • End of semester

Supplementary Topics

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