July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
9h 1m
English
In active information gathering, we interact directly with a system to learn more about it. We might, for example, conduct port scans for open ports on the target or conduct scans to determine what services are running. Each system or running service that we discover gives us another opportunity for exploitation. But beware: If you get careless while active information gathering, you might be nabbed by an IDS or intrusion prevention system (IPS)—not a good outcome for the covert penetration tester.
Having identified the target IP range with passive information gathering as well as the secmaniac.net target IP address, we can begin to scan for open ports on the target by port scanning, a process ...
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