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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

Chapter 7: System Hacking

System hacking refers to the activities hackers use to gain access to, and compromise, digital devices such as computers, smartphones, tablets, and even entire networks. This course explains the main methods of system hacking—password cracking, privilege escalation, spyware installation, keylogging, and other tactics. We'll also learn the countermeasures information technology (IT) security professionals can use to fight different attacks.

Learning about system hacking will help you implement the strongest possible security practices and help you assess your current security protection and which possible vulnerabilities may be on your systems and networks. You'll learn which security features work the best for your environment, how to discover and fix security vulnerabilities, and how to anticipate them.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding our objectives
  • Phase 1 – Gaining access and...