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This section discusses the Target breach case study, and encloses figures and statistics on what got stolen, its impact, approach, the root cause, and the way through which the breach could have been prevented.

 This section points to the attack vectors such as phishing, malware, and cookie generation and addresses the corresponding defenses. 

In this section, you will understand the importance of preventing the breach from happening and also learn the follow-up process in case it does.

Security Score Card is an information security company that evaluates and rates the Cyber Security postures of third-party companies.

This section explains password breaches and points to LinkedIn, Twitter, Evernote, Adobe, and PwdMgr examples for your understanding. 

This section gives you tips on where and how to store your data and enlightens you on what not to do while storing passwords.

This section demonstrates a popular case study on how LinkedIn password management failed and explains the hash function to counter the attack.

This section briefs the architecture of a part of the CPU used to hash and explains the technique that can be used to strengthen processing speed.

One of the better hashing approaches is the Scrypt hash function.

This section begins with explaining the properties of hashing and then continues with a briefing on Ballon hashing along with the code demonstration.

This section defines control flow integrity, explains its purpose, and demonstrates a code to help you understand working to protect indirect calls with CFG. 

This section explains a threat model and an approach called Cryptographic Control-Flow Integrity to control integrity.

The speaker answers various questions in this module to make it interesting.

You will learn various applications of computer security along with its future scope.