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Active target reconnaissance

Active target reconnaissance - Linux Tutorial

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Active target reconnaissance

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- [Instructor] The most important Kali tool for doing active target reconnaissance is Nmap, and this is in the top level information-gathering menu. Nmap provides a wide range of options to explore networks. Its primary function is to scan a network and probe the hosts that it detects. It can scan using either of the two main internet protocols, TCP and UDP, and it provides a lot of control over how the scanning and probing works. It can access services using a supplied username and password, or it can try to brute force its way in by guessing them. We can see from the help information that there's quite a lot we can do with Nmap. It takes time to fully understand the power of Nmaps, but the basics are a good place to start. As we look down the help, we can see that it's quite flexible at specifying the target or target lists. It has lots of ways to discover hosts. It has a number of different scan techniques and it allows…

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