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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 Wayback Machine

At this point, the internet has been around for quite some time, and there are a number of retired web pages and websites. The Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/web/web.php) allows us to view previous versions of websites that may not even exist anymore. Think of it as the archive of the internet. Once we find the older version of our target site, we can scan for historical data that people didn't mean to expose. Now, before I got my start in security, I had no idea this tool was out there, but it's really interesting to use for fun as well (you know, like showing your kids what Amazon used to look like):

Figure 3.18 – The Wayback Machine home page

Figure 3.18 – The Wayback Machine home page

You can see here that they have saved over 456 billion web pages. The Wayback Machine goes through websites and detects any changes – if it detects a change, it makes a note and caches that information. As an example, I'll use my old company's website...