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I purchased this book after doing the EC-Council self-paced iLearn course, and found the book to be a useful resource to help elaborate or reinforce concepts mentioned in the training videos. The text itself is well laid out in a logical order that is conducive to the learning of topics.As others have stated, there are a couple errors in the book and I was unable to find an Errata with my searches. This left me wondering what else could possibly be inaccurate in what I have read, so I'd recommend seeking out multiple sources on concepts (such as False Rejection Rate and False Acceptance Rates).

This book is very helpful if you're looking into taking the Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH) exam by EC Council, because Sean Oriyano goes into great detail (likely more than is needed to know for the exam, but that's not a bad thing) without being overwhelming. I found his writing is clear and to the point. His exam tips throughout and key summaries at the end of each chapter really helps the reader enforce what the most important points of the subject are. Also included in this book are review questions (and answers at the end), pen testing frameworks, and tips for building a lab (including relevant software you may want to use). Even if you're not taking the CEH, this is a great book to have in your arsenal.If you're serious about taking the exam, you'll want Sean's book in your study routine. Another study book that pairs well with this one is the CEH v9 Practice Tests, to really assess what you've learned.

After seeing several people complain about EC-Council now quizzing people on v9 despite trainees still applying after following the v8 training, I decided to order this book (being a v8-trained myself).The reviews for v8 of this book were mentioning a bunch of mistakes especially within training exam questions, sadly there still are a handful in this edition. Chapter 11 (the latest I have read) questions have TWO mistakes out of 20 questions (namely questions 12 and 17) and I have already seen a bunch of others previously (also considering the multiple-answers ones that are never stated as such)Command-line examples are VERY often wrong (the hping3 one in chapter 11 is missing a target IP address, for example) and the heap-stack explanation is pretty poor (to be nice)This being said, this book is still better than the awful EC-Council Official Curriculum. It's an easy read and most examples are OK, which makes the several errors even more problematic. Can't say if it will be good enough to pass the exam yet.

GOOD BOOK! Easy to read and good for the exam. Buying through Amazon is way cheaper than retail. The author is very thorough in the material and with the book, you should have no problem passing the Certification Exam; Having the CEH Certification will boost your resume for an information systems security position; some employers pay handsomely (like $100,00/year). Book was shipped in sturdy box; no damage. Amazon Prime is the way to go for free 2-day shipping! I believe there is even a Digital Kindle edition for this book, however, I like to manhandle my learning material and throw it across the room every once it a while. It is an easy read.

The book has some useful information in it, my issue was with the practice and chapter tests that you can go to the website and do. A few times so far I have found some of the answers to be incorrect so if you use this make sure you go back and check all of your answers and explanations match. Another issue I have with the tests is that one of the questions ask you to look at a figure to determine what is happening but it is just an obscure screenshot of a CLI running a continuous with no response and then halfway down the screen you can see they are starting to respond. If you read that chapter it makes perfect sense but the point of these tests is to prepare you for the exam and I don't feel like some random picture of a continuous ping is decent exam prep. Give a guy a diagram if you're having trouble explaining something.

This book provided a good overall understanding of the various topics needed for the CEH. The only drawback I saw to it was the author didn't speak to DOM Based XSS. There were others in there but that one was important to me. Regardless, I highly recommend this book

I enjoyed the book. Just did muy first read through. Very informative. Labs look good overall. I am prepping to do them soon. Lots of material, but a good foundation for learning about ethical hacking.

Book is easy to read and practice exams make a difference. You will need another book but this will give you a solid foundation.

Ok, this book is in no way perfect! But... if you take the time and read it, it will certainly help you a great deal with the CEH exam. There are a few mistakes in there but nothing that will result in you failing the exam. In fact, you'll probably spot the mistakes anyway.

It gives you some sort of insight of the information you should know, but some of it is inaccurate - like saying CTRL + ALT + DELETE automatically locks a Windows computer. Some of the example commands for tools are outdated - like wpscan which no longer requires ruby command to run the script. But besides that, it's good as a guide.

It's a good book but doesn't cover everything for v9. 2 chapters into Matt Walker All-in-one has done a better job at explains the concept

The new exam is V10 as of April 2018

Well written, a detailed introduction to the field