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Penetration Testing/Week 5/Lecture 5 - Reconnaisance.md

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 # Intelligence Gathering
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 - More information gathered, more vectors of attack may be able to use
 - Better knowledge of target, more likely to succeed
 - Better target company knows what is common knowledge, better it can prepare.
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 # Limits
 
 - Gathering information to identify entry points
-	- physical, electronic, human...
+	- physical, electronic, human…
 - and try to map out internal structure
 	- physical, network, organisational
 - and external dependencies
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 - Have a deadline
 	- Make sure time allocated to use intelligence
 
-# Passive vs Active Reconnaissance
+# Passive Vs Active Reconnaissance
 
 ## Passive
 
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 - Passive recon using OSINT sources
 - Include some semi-passive recon
 - Write report, outlining what has been found and why company should be aware.
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 - Look for:
 	- Corporate
 	- Personal
 	- Technical information
-- http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/Intelligence_Gathering
+- <http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/Intelligence_Gathering>
 
 ## How to Obtain Information
 
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 - Some tools rely on network inspection between you and target
 - "Active Packet Sniffing" means specific things cause traffic to flow to you
 - "Passive Packet Sniffing" means you inspect the traffic that happens to come past sniffer.
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