{"id":658,"date":"2026-09-16T16:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T16:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/?page_id=658"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:22:28","slug":"course-experience-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/course-experience-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Experience #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Artifact: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/cyse-270\/lab-5\/\">CYSE 270 Lab 5 &#8211; Password Cracking<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Course Experience #1, I chose to highlight <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/cyse-270\/lab-5\/\"><strong>CYSE 270 Lab 5 \u2013 Password Cracking<\/strong><\/a> because it continues to stand out as one of the most memorable experiences from my cybersecurity coursework. I particularly enjoyed this lab because it allowed me to apply classroom knowledge in a hands-on environment and gain a better understanding of how password vulnerabilities can impact system security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back, this experience played an important role in building my technical foundation and strengthening my analytical and problem-solving skills. I chose to include this lab because it represents an earlier stage of my academic journey and demonstrates how my technical knowledge has developed over time. The skills and concepts I gained from this experience have continued to influence my approach to cybersecurity and are relevant to the work I perform in my professional career today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can view my original CYSE 270 Lab 5 &#8211; Password Cracking through the link below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-derek-d-hillman wp-block-embed-derek-d-hillman\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ua7OwHkoQv\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/cyse-270\/lab-5\/\">Lab 5 &#8211; Password Cracking<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Lab 5 &#8211; Password Cracking&#8221; &#8212; Derek D. Hillman\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/cyse-270\/lab-5\/embed\/#?secret=mc3F4Ejd2I#?secret=ua7OwHkoQv\" data-secret=\"ua7OwHkoQv\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artifact: CYSE 270 Lab 5 &#8211; Password Cracking For Course Experience #1, I chose to highlight CYSE 270 Lab 5 \u2013 Password Cracking because it continues to stand out as one of the most memorable experiences from my cybersecurity coursework. I particularly enjoyed this lab because it allowed me to apply classroom knowledge in a&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/course-experience-1\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30353,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/dhill036\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}