The Harvard CS50: Intro to Cybersecurity is here! I’ve been waiting for weeks for it to come out. A few months ago, I watched the Harvard CS50: Introduction to Computer Science, which is probably the best introduction to computer science there is.
When I heard that there was going to be a CS50 on cybersecurity, I just couldn’t wait. The course launched on October 1st, and I watched everything by October 2nd.
The CS50 Intro to Cybersecurity is as awesome as CS50 Intro to Computer Science, thanks to Professor David J. Malan.
There are 7 hours and 40 minutes of videos that will teach you about:
- hacking, cracking
- social engineering, phishing attacks
- passcodes, passwords, SSO
- brute-force attacks, dictionary attacks
- biometrics
- multi-factor authentication, password managers
- ethical hacking
- (distributed) denial-of-service attacks
- viruses, worms, botnets
- SQL injection attacks
- port-scanning
- proxies, firewalls
- automatic updates
- closed-source, open-source software
- buffer-overflow attacks
- secure deletion
- hashing, salting
- secret-key, public-key encryption, digital signatures
- full-disk encryption, ransomware
- cookies, sessions, incognito mode
- anonymization, de-identification
- verification
- operating systems, app stores
The course is free, but to obtain a certificate of completion, you must pass a test with a minimum score of 70% and pay €425.