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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

Investigating the target's website

Let's look at how to conduct reconnaissance on a target's website and how we can make use of other research sites. When you're doing reconnaissance, the target website is often where you'll land after a quick online search. That's where you'll learn the business's exact functions, location, contact information, clients, who the leadership team is, and sometimes, way more than that. You'll want to pay close attention to everything on the website.

Figure 3.1 – Investigating a website

Figure 3.1 – Investigating a website

In Figure 3.1, we can see a couple of pieces of information on this main page. First, on the left side, they've provided information on how to set up Microsoft Outlook with their particular email product. I already clicked through and saw how to set up via Microsoft Exchange 2003, where they also gave me the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) servers they utilize. Later, I'll describe...