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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide

You're reading from   Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide Learn to perform professional penetration testing for highly-secured environments with this intensive hands-on guide with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517744
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lee Allen Lee Allen
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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Planning and Scoping for a Successful Penetration Test FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Reconnaissance Techniques 3. Enumeration: Choosing Your Targets Wisely 4. Remote Exploitation 5. Web Application Exploitation 6. Exploits and Client-Side Attacks 7. Post-Exploitation 8. Bypassing Firewalls and Avoiding Detection 9. Data Collection Tools and Reporting 10. Setting Up Virtual Test Lab Environments 11. Take the Challenge – Putting It All Together Index

Gathering and validating domain and IP information


When a person or corporate entity registers a domain name there is a lot of information that is gathered. Depending on the registration privacy settings, you can collect this information and use it to verify your IP space, find information about other sites owned by the same individual or corporation, or even phone numbers and addresses of key employees. This type of reconnaissance is considered passive as it does not directly contact client-owned assets to pull information.

We will need to locate the registrar that the domain has been registered with to obtain useful information. Here is a listing of the top registrars.

Gathering information with whois

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