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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Hacking Phase 1 - Reconnaissance

  • Reconnaissance refers to the preparatory phase where an attacker seeks to gather as much information as possible about a target of evaluation prior to launching an attack. It involves network scanning either external or internal without authorization

  • Business Risk - To see if someone is watching and responding. Could be future point of return when noted for ease of entry for an attack when more is known on a broad scale about the target.

  • Passive reconnaissance involves monitoring network data for patterns and clues.

    • Examples include sniffing, information gathering etc.

  • Active reconnaissance involves probing the network to detect

    • accessible hosts

    • open ports

    • location of routers

    • details of operating systems and services

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