Cybersecurity Analyst Pt 9 - Netcat Shell, Sockets, ICMP, DNS, curl, wget, APIs, SMB, SSH, SCH

We're taking you from navigating the Windows start menu to triaging Tier 1 SOC Analyst tickets by live stream instructing every piece of content from the pay what you can (PWYC) 400+ hour SOC100 course series over 5 months. Recordings free, and course is minimum $19, suggested $29 with virtual machines provided and lab time.

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Stream Details:
Class 9
Course: SOC100-1
Domain: Networking

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00:00:00 - Getting started banter
00:11:26 - Introduction to ping command; using ICMP to send echo requests and check connectivity
00:19:42 - Explanation of TTL in ping responses; understanding Time To Live and its role in networking
00:23:19 - Discussing packet loss in ping; importance in troubleshooting connectivity issues
00:29:17 - Using ping options like -c to limit number of echo requests
00:31:58 - Introduction to NSLookup; querying DNS records and specifying record types (A, AAAA, NS, TXT)
00:36:18 - Using NSLookup with specific name servers; understanding authoritative vs non-authoritative answers
00:44:52 - Using dig command for DNS queries; differences from NSLookup; getting detailed DNS information
00:53:02 - Retrieving TXT records with dig; understanding DNS record types
01:03:09 - Introduction to curl; interacting with URLs via command line; performing HTTP GET requests
01:11:05 - Using curl to interact with APIs; fetching public IP via ipify.org; explaining how APIs work
01:21:55 - Detailed explanation of APIs; client-server interactions; JSON data formats
01:42:50 - Using curl with PokeAPI; fetching JSON data about Pikachu; parsing JSON output
02:00:51 - Introduction to wget; downloading files via command line; differences from curl
02:04:52 - Using wget to download websites recursively; handling file paths and directories
02:13:43 - Introduction to SSH; encrypted remote connections; public and private keys; key exchange process
02:19:05 - Demonstrating SSH connection from Linux to Windows; dealing with host key verification
02:30:59 - Understanding known_hosts file in SSH; managing host key fingerprints
02:42:40 - Introduction to scp; transferring files securely over SSH; syntax for copying files
03:06:14 - Introduction to SMB protocol; setting up a network share in Windows; sharing folders over network
03:07:53 - Using smbclient in Linux to access Windows shares; listing available shares
03:13:42 - Mounting SMB shares in Linux using CIFS; accessing shared files locally
03:20:23 - Unmounting SMB shares; dealing with file permissions and access issues
03:36:18 - Introduction to netcat; creating raw network connections; acting as client or server
03:43:21 - Explaining netcat's use of sockets; operating in kernel space; creating raw connections
03:50:59 - Using netcat to create a listener; sending data between Linux and Windows; transferring files
03:53:09 - Establishing a simple chat session using netcat; bidirectional communication
04:01:46 - Demonstrating reverse shell with netcat; discussing security implications; remote code execution
04:05:46 - Discussing how netcat can be used for attacks; importance of network security
04:09:26 - Using netcat to make HTTP requests manually; interacting with servers at protocol level