Answer by KDEx for What is the difference between active reconnaissance and...
To make it a bit more clear I'm going to tweak the terms a bit. Active Information Gathering involves doing something on a target network/server that could be directly traced back to you. For example...
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Active Recon -- doesn't matter if touching or not touching any infrastructure -- the important part is the recon comes first in order to determine the target(s) which normally consist of company and...
View ArticleAnswer by Dave for What is the difference between active reconnaissance and...
I'll throw my 2 cents in here. The keyword that I zero in on is active. To me, this means that you are performing actions that will or cause packets to touch the target's infrastructure. In that sense,...
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Using a dictionary can sometimes help :-) to me reconnaissance is more passive, one 'mines and maps' available data resources by using secondary sources, not triggering illegal connections. By...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between active reconnaissance and scanning/enumeration
I have just started studying for CEH exam v8 and I am trying to get the core of so called hacking phases. I could not totally understand the practical difference between the first two phases. In recon...
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