Introduction

This semester I will be gaining familiarity with a few concepts and techniques pertaining to ethical hacking. I plan on achieving this by reading and going through exercises in "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition," by Jon Erickson. Along with this book, I will be making use of the exercises found in  Google's Code University section, Web Application Exploits and Defenses. Topics that will be covered include the learning of C, assembly language, cross-site scripting, client-state manipulation, path traversal, denial of service, altering a server's logging behavior, and redirecting network traffic.