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Reconnaissance introduction

Reconnaissance introduction - JavaScript Tutorial

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Reconnaissance introduction

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- [Instructor] The goal of doing reconnaissance is to be able to figure out what a set of common tools, if there are any issues or open doors for hackers to exploit. In this stage, you valuate your code. So the best way to do this is to do an NPM install or NPM audit, which we'll explore a little bit later on. So let's first start with NPM install. And the very first step is to go through any messages the console log could be telling you. When there are messages related to dependencies being deprecated, act on them immediately, especially at the first level. So if we take a look at the package.json file here we have some dependencies that we install into our project. So some of these messages will be related to dependencies within any of those packages. But what we're looking for is the phase packages that we've installed. If there's any issues on those 'cause you've been basically using the same package for a while, but…

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