The CEH Prep Guide: The Comprehensive Guide to Certified Ethical Hacking -- About the Authors -- Credits -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Exam Eligibility -- Part I: The Business and Legal Issues of Ethical Hacking -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Ethical Hacking -- Terminology -- Hacking History -- Ethical Hacking Objectives and Motivations -- Steps in Malicious Hacking -- Hacker and Ethical Hacker Characteristics and Operations -- Related Types of Computer Crime -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 2: Legality and Ethics -- Law and Legal Systems -- Computer Crime Penalties -- Ethics -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 3: Penetration Testing for Business -- Penetration Testing from a Business Perspective -- Justification of Penetration Testing through Risk Analysis -- Management Responsibilities in Risk Analysis Relating to Penetration Testing -- Assessment Questions -- Part II: The Pre-Attack Phases -- Chapter 4: Footprinting -- Gathering Information -- Locating the Network Range -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 5: Scanning -- Identifying Active Machines -- Identifying Open Ports and Available Services -- War Dialing -- War Driving and War Walking -- Fingerprinting -- Mapping the Network -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 6: Enumerating -- Protection Rings -- Windows Architecture -- Windows Security Elements -- Enumerating Techniques for Windows -- Countermeasures -- Assessment Questions -- Part III: Attack Techniques and Tools -- Chapter 7 System Hacking Techniques -- Password Guessing -- Privilege Escalation -- Password Cracking -- Covering Tracks -- Countermeasures -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 8: Trojans, Backdoors, and Sniffers -- Trojans and Backdoors -- Sniffers -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 9: Denial of Service Attacks and Session Hijacking -- Denial of Service/Distributed Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS).

Session Hijacking -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 10: Penetration Testing Steps -- Penetration Testing Overview -- Legal and Ethical Implications -- The Three Pretest Phases -- Penetration Testing Tools and Techniques -- Wireless Network Penetration Testing -- Social Engineering -- Intrusion Detection System (IDS) -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 11: Linux Hacking Tools -- Linux History -- Scanning Networks with Linux Tools -- Linux Hacking Tools -- Linux Rootkits -- Linux Security Tools -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 12: Social Engineering and Physical Security -- Social Engineering -- Physical Security -- Assessment Questions -- Part IV: Web Server and Database Attacks -- Chapter 13: Web Server Hacking and Web Application Vulnerabilities -- Web Server Hacking -- Web Application Vulnerabilities -- Countermeasures -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 14:SQL Injection Vulnerabilities -- SQL Injection Testing and Attacks -- SQL Injection Prevention and Remediation -- Automated SQL Injection Tools -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 15: Cryptography -- Symmetric Key Cryptography -- Public Key Cryptosystems -- Public Key Certificates -- Cryptanalysis -- Managing Encryption Keys -- Email Security -- Electronic Transaction Security -- Wireless Security -- Disk Encryption -- Hacking Tools -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 16: Cracking Web Passwords -- Authentication -- Password Considerations and Issues -- Assessment Questions -- Part V: Advanced Topics -- Chapter 17: Wireless Network Attacks and Countermeasures -- Wireless Technology -- The IEEE 802.11 Family -- WLAN Operational Modes -- The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) -- Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) -- WPA and WPA2 -- 802.1x and EAP -- WLAN Threats -- Wireless Hacking Tools -- Securing WLANs -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 18: Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, and Honeypots.

Firewalls -- Intrusion Detection and Response -- Incident Handling -- Honeypots -- Assessment Questions -- Chapter 19: Viruses, Worms, and Buffer Overflows -- Viruses -- Worms -- Virus and Worm Examples -- Buffer Overflows -- Preventing Malicious Code and Buffer Overflows -- Assessment Questions -- Appendix A: Answers to Assessment Questions -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Appendix B: Glossary of Terms and Acronyms -- Appendix C: What's on the CD -- System Requirements -- Using the CD -- What's on the CD -- Troubleshooting -- Customer Care -- Index.