PART ICASING THE ESTABLISHMENT

CASE STUDY

As you will discover in the following chapters, footprinting, scanning, and enumeration are vital concepts in casing the establishment. Just like a bank robber will stake out a bank before making the big strike, your Internet adversaries will do the same. They will systematically poke and prod until they find the soft underbelly of your Internet presence. Oh…and it won’t take long.

Expecting the bad guys to cut loose a network scanner like Nmap with all options enabled is so 1999 (which, coincidently, is the year we wrote the original Hacking Exposed book). These guys are much more sophisticated today and anonymizing their activities is paramount to a successful hack. Perhaps taking a bite out of the ...

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