7 Cyber security Project Ideas
Hello everyone, I struggle a lot to think of good project ideas and then actually doing them until the end, in particular cyber security projects. Once I decide to start something I always end-up procrastinating and doing everything else but what I wanted. To prevent this from happening again I decided to create a list of 5 project ideas that I will be doing in the next few months, all related in someway to cyber security.
❗ Disclaimer ❗
I just want to say that these project ideas are for educational and learning purposes only, if you decide to use them to commit crimes I am not responsible for that. I will be doing each of the projects and I will be testing them in a close, and safe environment. And I will not use them to exploit/harm people.
1- Create a RAT – Remote Access Trojan
The idea here is simple, just create a script that executes something on a victims machine and sends the result or some information to a server controlled by the attacker (me in this case). For this purpose I will simply create a local server and make sure I can compromise myself (dumb! 😆 ). Just a fun way to see if I can attack myself. Afterwards I will try to create an anti-virus to block my own attack 🙂
Check out my solution for this one here.
2- Create a Virtual Network and associated firewall
The idea with this project is to simply create a virtual network using virtual machines. Once they are setup in a certain way I will create a firewall and test it with some random requests. To make things more interesting I will also develop a client-server system, an example is a banking system. And I will run it on this VLAN to test it. Also I will improve the firewall rules to prevent unwanted attacks like DoS.
3- Write a Key logger
The key logger is a tool that records the keys that were clicked by the user of the computer. This tool can be useful to perform malicious attacks but the idea here is just to see if I can record myself, and if so I will try to improve my previously created anti-virus to stop this attack from happening.
4- Create a Steganography tool
Steganography is a technique used to hide messages inside images or videos in a certain way. The idea is to create a tool that hides messages inside images and retrieves them as well. It could be useful for CTF competitions!
5- Create a Static Code Analysis tool
I am sure you heard about static code analysis tools. These tools go through static code and try to find potential vulnerabilities based on the code itself. The idea is to create a tool that given C code is able to spot certain vulnerabilities like Buffer overflows, etc. And also it is able to categorize the finding and say what is the problem (the line in this case).
6 – Create a network traffic analysis tool
Analyzing your network and monitoring it closely is essential to keep your computer and network safe from intruders. With this project I intend to create/design my own tool that will help me monitor and log my network traffic. Once this part is done we can improve the solution and add some logic to it. For example, we can implement filter options by protocol used, by IP, etc. To both facilitate and improve the analysis of the obtained traffic.
7- Create a Virus/Worm that infects a system in some way
The idea with this virus is to simply infect a computer with it, perform a simple action like deleting or creating a file and then infect another machine in the network.
Conclusion
I believe these projects are very interesting and I should be able to do them all, at least that is what I hope 😆 . It is important to notice once again that my goal is just to learn and to better understand the attacks that can compromise my machine and network. I hope you use this as a learning tool as well and not as a mean to harm someone.
❗ ❗ Please do not use this knowledge to harm or attack someone in anyway ❗ ❗ .
I will add posts in the future of each of the solutions for these challenges. Once I finish them I will create the next list of 7 projects that I will do to further improve my knowledge and skill set.
I hope you enjoyed the reading and I leave you with a challenge, comment down below any ideas you have for me to do and I will do my best to execute them if I think they are worth it (and legal… 😛 ).
Thank you very much for reading!
Cheers,
MRegra
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MRegra
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