uCertify E312-50-v6 CEH Course Review : Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures

The only purpose I started this blog 4 years ago was to make it easy for aspiring ethical hacking students learn the everything in simplified & arranged manner. It consumed plenty of my  time when I first started of & everything was scattered all over the web. And because this ‘Hacking’ industry have its Black & White hat areas, It was really hard to find any mentors for learning. So today I am reviewing one of the most organized learning system from uCertify named E312-50-v6 Prepkit.

You might be already aware that there are several exam to begin with in career in ethical hacking. Now, CEH v6 is one of the exam that most of the  aspirants have to deal with first this exam to learn & understand Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures.

uCertify E312-50-v6 is a preparation kit offered by uCertify.com, makes it very easy  to prepare yourself for CEH v6 exam, which guarantees success in the exam. Just to let you know I have personally tried using  the full version of this Prepkit, only to tell you how good or bad this Prepkit  is.

And I must say – They have covered every single detail that any ethical hacking student must know. More interesting thing I would like to specially mention is, ‘Even If you are an absolute beginner they have provided all the modules to make it easy to learn‘

Even if you have no idea what is Linux is & how it works ? The Prepkit have answer for that too !!

uCertify E312-50-v6 Prepkit Overview

As I told this Prepkit deals with basics of Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures, They have tried to make you understand everything with the Study Help modules. You get number of Exam Standard/Objectives, Articles, How To’s, Notes & Key terms which you can understand about before you are heading for the  tests.

You get numerous practice tests, some diagnostic tests & interactive tests for checking your level of understanding the topics covered. Moreover you can also add custom tests for making it more challenging to learn ethical hacking. All the tests are properly timed to check whether you are preparing well according to the timeline.

What else you ever need to prepare yourself ?

Well, they have provided you to store test histories, reports to analyze while you progress with the learning. Prepkit covers much more smaller details and modules than mentioned here, and everything is well organized in very usable interface accessible on your home PC. I personally feel this Prepkit was good enough for any student to pass CEH exam. You never need to opt for very expensive educational institutes , No need for any mentor.

The Prepkit alone will get the job done for you. All you have to do is Download the Prepkit, Practise & Practice until you are fully prepared for EC Council CEH v6.

uCertify offers such Prepkits for many of different exams and subjects related to Computers & web, You can know more about them by visiting Official website of uCertify.

Click here to get uCertify E312-50-v6  Prepkit.

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SOCIAL ENGINEERING

Social Engineering is something that is not done through the using the technical hacking strategies. It’s about convincing the authenticity of your exploit. So, when is this used? Exactly when the attackers can’t find the vulnerability for their exploits. Right? Its like playing trickery for the purpose of gathering crucial information from the target users. They might be Human Based or Computer Based.

If it’s Human Based, we have the Shoulder Surfing in this. It like silently peeping into the keyboard while someone is typing the password. If it might be possible that the attacker calls the victim and convinces him to have the permission from authorized source to his system. The victim in turn gets convinced and provides most crucial data to the attacker. The attacker might also make the target believe that he is the employee or the contractor, thus providing him with all the required details. It’s also possible that the attacker goes for the social network profile of the victim, chooses one of his friends (say X) and later convinces the victim that he is the friend of X and he needs to know this.

If it’s Computer Based, the most important source for this attack are the email attachments which convinces the users to open it, promising to be from a trusted source. The moment the user opens it, results in the execution of the malicious code contained in the attachment. The another types of social Engineering technique are the Phishing and the Spear Phishing, the technique that was used to hack theInternational Monitory Fund(IMF) days back. What was done in the case of IMF, according to the sources, that an email was sent from within the IMF to the two groups of employee with the subject “2011 Recruitment Plan” and this was intriguing enough to make them click on the attachment or the links. As an attachment was a file named 2011 recruitment plan.xls, that contained the 0-day Exploit, installing a backdoor through Adobe flash Vulnerability. So this indeed is very actively popular Social Engineering strategy these days. You can take a look for further details @ http://www.castigliola.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=125&Itemid=1

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