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Hacks

8 min4 lessonsNovice
What you’ll learn
  1. You'll understand what 'hacks' mean in security and programming contexts, and recognize the difference between malicious attacks and legitimate tricks.

  2. You'll learn how attackers exploit systems, identify common attack types like phishing and malware, and understand why security matters.

  3. You'll discover how to think like an attacker by mapping potential entry points and understanding the pathways hackers use to compromise systems.

  4. You'll grasp how attackers chain multiple exploits together and why zero-day vulnerabilities are particularly dangerous in real-world scenarios.

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About this study

Hacks” is a free, 4-lesson study on Hacks at novice level, created with soclever, a personal AI teacher. Each lesson takes a few minutes and ends with a check-in question; finish the curriculum and you can take a certificate exam to earn a diploma. Starting is free and needs no account — or generate your own study on any topic.

What you'll learn

  1. What Is a Hack?. The word "hack" started with telephone engineers in the 1950s who discovered clever, unintended ways to route calls and explore the phone network—not to steal, but out of sheer…
  2. Security Hacks and Cyber Attacks. The first major computer worm, called the Morris Worm, spread across the internet in 1988 and crashed thousands of machines. A graduate student released it to test network…
  3. Threat Modeling and Attack Vectors. You've just noticed someone left a sticky note with a password on the desk next to an unlocked computer. That's not a technical flaw—it's a human one, and it's exactly the kind of…

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