Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Exam Cram

CEH Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Cram is the perfect study guide to help you pass the updated CEH exam. Dr. Chuck Easttom’s expert real-world approach reflects both his expertise as one of the world’s leading cybersecurity practitioners and instructors, as well as test-taking insights he has gained from teaching CEH preparation courses worldwide, including courses taught directly for EC-Council. Easttom assumes no prior knowledge: his expert coverage of every exam topic can help readers with little ethical hacking experience to obtain the knowledge they need to succeed.

Covers the critical information you’ll need to score higher on your CEH exam!

• 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

Dr. Chuck Easttom is the author of 34 books, including several on computer security, forensics, and cryptography. He holds a doctor of science degree in cybersecurity, a Ph.D. in nanotechnology, a Ph.D. in computer science, and three master’s degrees (one in applied computer science, one in education, and one in systems engineering). He is also an inventor with 23 patents. He is a senior member of both the IEEE and the ACM. He is also a Distinguished Speaker of the ACM and a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE. Dr. Easttom is currently an adjunct professor for Georgetown University and for University of Dallas.

    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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