Ethical Hacking: Techniques, Tools, and Countermeasures, 4th Edition
by Michael G. Solomon, Sean-Philip Oriyano
Enumeration
After collecting basic environmental information from port scanning results, the next step for a would-be attacker is to dig deeper into the individual target systems to determine which services and resources are available on each one. Enumeration represents a more aggressive step in the hacking and penetration testing process because the attacker now starts to access individual systems to see what is available and might have value. All the steps leading up to this point have been aimed at gaining information about targets to discover any vulnerabilities and to determine how the network is configured. The primary goal of enumeration is for the attacker to discover which vulnerabilities exist for discovered services and which vulnerabilities ...
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