2Networking Basics
Sitting at his desk, he was looking for his next target. A couple of quick Google searches and digging through various job sites gave him some ideas but he needed to know more. He was in need of addresses and hostnames and he knew of several places he would be able to locate that information. With just a few commands in his open terminal window he had a number of network addresses that he could start poking at. That gave him a starting point, and a few DNS queries later he had not only network addresses but some hostnames that went along with them. He was also able to get some contact information that could be useful later on.
Once he had his hostnames and addresses, he could figure out what programs may be listening on the ports that were open at those addresses. He knew that the application layer was where the money was—all of the problems lower down in the stack had long since been corrected, so the best way into a system was going to be through any program that was sitting behind one of those open ports. Once he knew what applications he needed to target, he would be golden and he could make his move. There was so much that he might be able to do with a poorly implemented web application environment, for example. He could just see his bank account growing with all of the credit cards and ...
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