Published by Pearson IT Certification (May 25, 2022) © 2022
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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Exam Cram is the perfect study guide to help you pass the updated CEH Version 11 exam. Its expert real-world approach reflects Dr. Chuck Easttom's expertise as one of the world's leading cybersecurity practitioners and instructors, plus test-taking insights he has gained from teaching CEH preparation courses worldwide. Easttom assumes no prior knowledge: His expert coverage of every exam topic can help readers with little ethical hacking experience to obtain the knowledge to succeed.
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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Exam Cram helps you master all topics on CEH Exam Version 11:
- Review the core principles and concepts of ethical hacking
- Perform key pre-attack tasks, including reconnaissance and footprinting
- Master enumeration, vulnerability scanning, and vulnerability analysis
- Learn system hacking methodologies, how to cover your tracks, and more
- Utilize modern malware threats, including ransomware and financial malware
- Exploit packet sniffing and social engineering
- Master denial of service and session hacking attacks, tools, and countermeasures
- Evade security measures, including IDS, firewalls, and honeypots
- Hack web servers and applications, and perform SQL injection attacks
- Compromise wireless and mobile systems, from wireless encryption to recent Android exploits
- Hack Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) devices and systems
- Attack cloud computing systems, misconfigurations, and containers
- Use cryptanalysis tools and attack cryptographic systems
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
CHAPTER 1:
Reconnaissance and Scanning.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Reconnaissance Types.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Active Reconnaissance Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
CHAPTER 2:
Enumeration and Vulnerability Scanning.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Scanning.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Scanning Process.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Network Packet Capture.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Vulnerability Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
CHAPTER 3:
System Hacking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
CEH Methodology.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Pass the Hash.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Spyware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
CHAPTER 4:
Malware.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Malware Types.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Viruses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Protecting Against Malware.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
CHAPTER 5:
Packet Sniffing and Social Engineering.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Social Engineering.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Packet Sniffing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
CHAPTER 6:
Denial of Service and Session Hijacking.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Denial of Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Session Hijacking.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
CHAPTER 7:
Evading Security Measures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Intrusion Detection Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Firewalls and Honeypots.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Virtual Private Networks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
IDS Evasion Techniques.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Firewall Evasion Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
CHAPTER 8:
Hacking Web Servers and Web Applications.. . . . . . . . . . . 205
Web Servers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Web Applications.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
CHAPTER 9:
Hacking Wireless.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Wireless Technology.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Hacking Wireless.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
CHAPTER 10:
Hacking Mobile.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Mobile Technologies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Mobile Threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
CHAPTER 11:
IOT and OT Hacking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
IoT Fundamentals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
CHAPTER 12:
Cloud Computing and Hacking.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Cloud Fundamentals.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
CHAPTER 13:
Cryptography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Cryptography Concepts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
PKI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Cryptographic Attacks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Glossary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
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