
Explore how broken authentication enables attackers through credential stuffing, brute force, and weak recovery, and learn effective mitigations like multi-factor authentication, strong passwords, and server-side session management.
Learn to identify and exploit xml external entities (xxe) vulnerabilities, including password file leakage and ssrf via burp suite, and apply fixes using whitelisting and safer parsers in real apps.
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a fundamental understanding of computer security, through the study of the top 10 most common security vulnerabilities, as provided by OWASP.
By the end of this course, students will have enough of an understanding to make design choices that preserve the security of the applications they own. This course can also serve as a way to gain foundations required to proceed to more advanced security topics.