Fraunhofer Academy
Hacking: Binary Exploitation

Munich, Germany
Kassel, Germany

DEGREE TYPE

Course

DURATION

LANGUAGES

English

PACE

APPLICATION DEADLINE

EARLIEST START DATE

STUDY FORMAT

On-Campus

Key Summary

About : The Hacking: Binary Exploitation program delves into advanced security topics, focusing on binary exploitation techniques. Students will gain hands-on experience in ethical hacking practices, tools used in binary exploitation, and real-world applications. This program equips you with the skills needed to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in systems and applications, emphasizing practical and theoretical knowledge.

Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue various roles such as penetration testers, security analysts, and vulnerability researchers. The skills acquired in this program open doors to working in cybersecurity firms, governmental organizations, and tech companies, where you’ll help protect infrastructures from cyber threats.

More and more devices and systems can now be reached through the Internet and other networks, exposing them to direct attacks. This creates challenges for many companies to appropriately secure their systems and protect themselves against possible hacker attacks. Despite the protection mechanisms currently available (e.g. non-executable storage regions, ran-domization of addresses or stack cookies inserted by the compiler), weaknesses in applications are still being successfully exploited. This poses the question of how these protection mechanisms can be circumvented by the attackers.

The solution: Understanding and predicting binary exploitation from the viewpoint of hackers

As part of this seminar, participants will discover the approaches used by hackers in order to be better prepared for such attacks. The main focus of this seminar is the field of binary exploitation: for example, how programming errors in C code can be exploited to inject and execute external code. As part of this, the question of how effective the system and compiler protection mechanisms are, and how and in what circumstances attackers can circumvent such protection, is answered.

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