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Network Vulnerability Assessment
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Network Vulnerability Assessment

by Sagar Rahalkar
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
254 pages
6h 20m
English
Packt Publishing
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Passive information gathering

Passive information gathering is a technique where no direct contact with the target is made for gathering the information. All the information is obtained through an intermediate source which may be publicly available. The internet has many useful resources that can help us with passive information gathering. Some such techniques are discussed next.

The following diagram describes how passive information gathering works:

Here is how it works:

  1. The client system first sends a request to an intermediate system
  2. The intermediate system probes the target system
  3. The target system sends the result back to the intermediate ...
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ISBN: 9781788627252