Chapter 2. Reconnaissance
Information in This Chapter:
■ HTTrack: Website Copier
■ Google Directives—Practicing Your Google-Fu
■ The Harvester: Discovering and Leveraging E-mail Addresses
■ Whois
■ Netcraft
■ Host
■ Extracting Information from DNS
■ Extracting Information from E-mail Servers
■ MetaGooFil
■ Social Engineering
■ Sifting through the Intel to Finding Attackable Targets
This chapter reviews the first step in any penetration test. Reconnaissance (also known as information gathering) plays a vital role in the success or failure of the overall PT or hack. Of each of the steps covered in this book, reconnaissance is the least understood and most underutilized by new penetration testers. This phase can be seen as the “preparation” and forerunner to ...
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