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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

The right encryption can help

Now that we've deployed our wireless environment, how do we make sure things are still secure? Well, once we've identified our weakness, we'll have strength, and that's when we get dangerous. It's so true because knowing is half the battle. Understanding where your weaknesses are helps to strengthen you.

WEP encryption

Believe it or not, WEP encryption is still heavily used. But, let's not even pretend here, WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy, but it's not. That was the initial goal, and we'll discuss why they didn't achieve it when they implemented or had this ratified.

It was designed to protect us from digital eavesdropping and to help make sure our data was protected.

It also was there to help make sure we prevented anybody from getting on the network via Wi-Fi without being authorized to do so.

To prevent unauthorized access and eavesdropping, it uses a key. The key is the problem...