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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

Preparing proxies and other anonymizing techniques

Before we start attacking systems or launching our attack at a company, we need to prepare our proxies and discuss another technique called HTTP tunneling.

There are other ways that we can use different anonymizing techniques to hide who we are and where we're coming from. We want to create an environment where it's almost like a magician's misdirection – look over here while I attack you from here.

So, first, we'll go through and look at placing the blame on someone else. In this world, where we have hundreds of thousands of devices hooked up, why not utilize them (systems) to go through and create proxies? So, we'll look at what a proxy is, why we use a proxy, and how to use a proxy. Then, we will look at a scary technique that's being utilized today that should have you very concerned: HTTP tunneling. Wait a minute, my users can do what? will be your reaction when you see it. We will then...