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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

Our quest led us to investigate how attackers gather information from their target's website to know the target's exact business functions, important contact information, clients and partners, the management team, and so on. We learned how to use WHOIS, the command-line interface, ping and DNS, and SOA to gather information. We learned about more tools that help with reconnaissance and footprinting, such as Sam Spade, Netcraft, and the Wayback Machine.

We saw how what the information organizations give away for free can reveal a ton of vulnerabilities. So do job sites, marketing materials, customer support, social networking profiles, and financial and competitive analysis data.

We also discussed employees as the weakest link. Their hobbies, the things they share or post online, the places they go to after work, what they buy, and more all give attackers the clues they need. We then discussed how attackers use these clues to join the groups their targets frequent...