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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v12 312-50 Exam Guide

By : Dale Meredith
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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v12 312-50 Exam Guide

By: Dale Meredith

Overview of this book

With cyber threats continually evolving, understanding the trends and using the tools deployed by attackers to determine vulnerabilities in your system can help secure your applications, networks, and devices. To outmatch attacks, developing an attacker's mindset is a necessary skill, which you can hone with the help of this cybersecurity book. This study guide takes a step-by-step approach to helping you cover all the exam objectives using plenty of examples and hands-on activities. You'll start by gaining insights into the different elements of InfoSec and a thorough understanding of ethical hacking terms and concepts. You'll then learn about various vectors, including network-based vectors, software-based vectors, mobile devices, wireless networks, and IoT devices. The book also explores attacks on emerging technologies such as the cloud, IoT, web apps, and servers and examines prominent tools and techniques used by hackers. Finally, you'll be ready to take mock tests, which will help you test your understanding of all the topics covered in the book. By the end of this book, you'll have obtained the information necessary to take the 312-50 exam and become a CEH v11 certified ethical hacker.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Where Every Hacker Starts
10
Section 2: A Plethora of Attack Vectors
15
Section 3: Cloud, Apps, and IoT Attacks
20
Chapter 17: CEH Exam Practice Questions

ARP poisoning

ARP poisoning is a mechanism we can use during the sniffing process, and its capability is quite scary. The concept is… we're going to trick people into doing something or going to a place they don't intend to, and we do this at a computer level.

Growing up, my father would tell me: "You can only trick people for so long, but until then, take advantage of the situation." Of course, he would say this in a light-hearted way—he didn't really believe this. It always seemed to him people were trying to do this to him. He was working for a movie theater chain and his job entailed going to different areas to find where managers and employees were stealing from the company. He always said people thought they could come up with a new way of finding "a way around the system" so that they wouldn't be detected, but technically, it was never a new way. It was just a new path using an old mechanism, and that old mechanism was...