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Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v12 312-50 Exam Guide

You're reading from   Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) v12 312-50 Exam Guide Keep up to date with ethical hacking trends and hone your skills with hands-on activities

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813099
Length 664 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dale Meredith Dale Meredith
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Where Every Hacker Starts
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Ethical Hacking FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Reconnaissance 4. Chapter 3: Reconnaissance – A Deeper Dive 5. Chapter 4: Scanning Networks 6. Chapter 5: Enumeration 7. Chapter 6: Vulnerability Analysis 8. Chapter 7: System Hacking 9. Chapter 8: Social Engineering 10. Section 2: A Plethora of Attack Vectors
11. Chapter 9: Malware and Other Digital Attacks 12. Chapter 10: Sniffing and Evading IDS, Firewalls, and Honeypots 13. Chapter 11: Hacking Wireless Networks 14. Chapter 12: Hacking Mobile Platforms 15. Section 3: Cloud, Apps, and IoT Attacks
16. Chapter 13: Hacking Web Servers and Web Apps 17. Chapter 14: Hacking IoT and OT 18. Chapter 15: Cloud Computing 19. Chapter 16: Using Cryptography 20. Chapter 17: CEH Exam Practice Questions 21. Assessments 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Google hacking

Note that when I say Google hacking, I'm not referring to trying to hack the Google servers.

First and foremost, you need to understand how Google works. Normally, what happens is you type in something such as how to raise baby ducks. Google quickly responds with sites telling you how to raise baby ducks.

Now, how does Google do this? Their servers are designed to go out and look at every single website that's out there, even if it's a little blog site. Their servers crawl through the entire internet and index what it finds. Crawling is the process of going through and making a note of every page and word on that page; all those words are then indexed, which is how Google can pull up random websites about ducks.

There are some limits to Google. I know you're saying, Dale, say it's not so. Google has no limits. Well, it does. The limit is 32 words in a Google query.

We're going to be taking advantage of the Advanced Search section...

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