LINUX SYSTEM FOR CYBERSECURITY

This course introduces the basic operations in major Linux distros for cybersecurity using both graphical interface and command line interface. I learned about the basic installation and configuration, file systems management, shell scripts, and user authentication in Linux systems. This course is the technical base for students to take cybersecurity major courses.

One of my favorite assignments from this course was the password cracking assignment. I did all of this in a virtual machine. In this assignment I had to make 6 users in the Linux system with random passwords for each one. I had to export the hash into a file and use john the ripper to crack the passwords of the users. I let John the ripper run through and crack the passwords. I only had two passwords show up. It was really cool how it ran though the different users and finding the passwords. The other four users had harder passwords to crack. 

If you are curious here is the assignment.