regarding the Certificated Ethical Hacker

[scienceman]

Any of you heard about this certification?

[Bryce W]

I have seen this and it looks pretty interesting. It seems to be designed for people who want jobs like network technicians, security technicians or even specialist jobs that do network peneration tests (network auditing I think is the offical term?).
Its a good job that is needed in this day and age, expecially when you hear on the news all this stuff with massive credit card databases getting stolen. I am sure it happens more often than we know but never gets reported.

Searching around on Google, I have found what this course covers:


Security testing methodologies including the OSSTMM
Stealthy network recon
Multi-OS banner grabbing
Remote root vulnerability exploitation
Privilege escalation hacking
Unauthorized data extraction
Remote access trojan hacking
Offensive sniffing
Wireless insecurity
Breaking IP-based ACLs via spoofing
Evidence removal and anti-forensics
Attacking network infrastructure devices
Hacking by brute forcing remotely
Hacking Web Applications
Breaking into databases with SQL Injection
Cross Site Scripting hacking
Justifying a penetration test to management and customers
CEH review
Defensive techniques
Abusing DNS for host identification
Leaking system information from Unix and Windows
Stealthy Recon
Unix, Windows and Cisco password cracking
Remote buffer overflow exploit lab I - Smashing the Stack
Remote buffer overflow exploit lab II - Getting Tricky
Remote heap overflow exploit lab III - Beyond the Stack
Desktop exploitation
Remote keylogging
Data mining authentication information from clear-text protocols
Remote sniffing
Breaking wireless security via hacking
Malicious event log editing
Transferring files through firewalls
Hacking into Cisco routers
Harvesting web application data
Data retrieval with SQL Injection Hacking
Calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) for an ethical hack I am sure there are going to be people who abuse this.