I want to appear for the EH exam.
Need some info so as wht is the syllabi & which books to refer

Here is the description of what is taught in the class -- all these topics are fair game for the test:
http://www.eccouncil.org/EC-Council%20Education/ceh-course-outline.htm

EC-Council sells the official study guide.  Very expensive.
http://www.eccouncil.org/studyguide.htm

Other resources are coming out soon from Sybex, Exam Cram and CBT Nuggets.  There is a thread of books over at the certifiedsecuritypro site.

http://www.certifiedsecuritypro.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,190/topic,126.0

What with my studying for the CCE exam now, I have some time available; I could help lead the study group, if no one else minds. I do have the knowledge inbetween my ears, despite that there are no jobs for it here in the area.

How do you discourage a potential employer from thinking you might go rogue and disgruntled and bring their sysytems down? I think this is a major obstacle to finding a job in ssecurity, at least in my area. I already have removed the CEH logo from my resume, but I am still very heavy into the tech. It REALLY is cool.

 

Sounds cool to me. I passed the CEH exam in Dec. 04. I had to pay for it myself, but I was able to get a 20% discount on the price. I still cannot find any work doing any of it, though.

If your work is paying for it, great. One word of caution: Like I said, I passed my exam in Dec. 04. Around May of 05, EC-Council announced a CEH "ver.4". If I look at the CEH syllabus now www.eccouncil.org/ceh.htm I can see a few things that were not included in the class I took.

For Instance: there is something listed in the ver.4 course syllabus under Module 13, "Web Based Password Cracking Techniques--Mary Had A Little Lamb formula". I still cannot find out anything about what that is.

Don, do you have any idea about the "Mary Had A Little Lamb formula?"

Do you do any programming? It would help for the exam. I don't do any programming, so I didn't pass until my third time. I just studied what I wasn't sure of, and kept plugging away.
Be warned, after you pass the exam, it will be a loooonnnng time until you recieve the cert. Just ask Dengar13, also on this forum. It took me almost 3 months to get mine. Dengar didn't get his until it was after 3 months.

Sure, that sounds fine. I've never really done this before, but like you say, you don't have a lot of time, and I guess I have more time than you. After winning that great prize. I'd like to give a little back. Help out wherever I can, y'know?

Oyle

Hey, it's the first explanation I've seen for it anywhere. I guess it makes sense, although you're right, it's not a complex password, or even a good  password. But I could find plenty of obscure enough songs to use to create a decent password.

But I use a method to create complex passwords even easier: I just use any 5 to 8 characters off the Microsoft COA (Certficate of Authority) labels on PCs installed with Microsoft OSes, Microsoft software, etc. Microsoft has a server in Redmond that does nothing but crank out those 25 character Product Keys, 24/7. Any of these, taken in any order, makes for an excellent password.

You're new here, right? Welcome. Hope you have a good time here.

BTW, on the EC-Council CEH syllabus, "Mary Had A Little Lamb Formula" is technically listed as a "Hacking Tool", at least it looks like to me.

Thanks for the welcome. I was actually the 3rd member to register here too (on September 10th 2005). I stumbled upon this site when it was still an empty shell under construction, that was even before registering at CSP. At that stage I didn't know that both domains belong to don.