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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

Phase 2 – Escalating privileges

Wanting local administrative rights, even though you're not allowed them, is what escalating privileges is all about. So, the problem we have here is now we've gone through and hacked a password and figured out the user ID, we're stuck with the privilege of that user—or are we?

Kevin Mitnick, the world-famous hacker said the following:

It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems—it was all towards becoming a better hacker.

When you think about it, what he was doing was elevating his privileges by getting to know the source code and seeing which bugs or vulnerabilities he had to escalate out of.

We've made it in. What now?

What do we do now? Remember how we made it in this far? We found a user account and cracked their password. Our goal...