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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed ways you can hack web servers and web apps. This allows you to discover existing and potential vulnerabilities. Then, we discussed why web servers and web apps create security issues. We talked about some of the different types of architectures you may experience and looked at some of the threats the wireless world presents us with. After that, we covered some attacks you can use for web application attacks. We covered some of the specifics and vulnerabilities of web APIs, web shells, and webhooks. Finally, we discussed some of the ways we can detect web server hacking attempts and prevent or limit what attackers can do.

In the next chapter, we'll dive into hacking the Internet of Things (IoT) (or, as I like to say, Internet of THREATS) and Operational Technology (OT).