Investigating the target's website

Let's look at how to conduct reconnaissance on a target's website and how we can make use of other research sites. When you're doing reconnaissance, the target website is often where you'll land after a quick online search. That's where you'll learn the business's exact functions, location, contact information, clients, who the leadership team is, and sometimes, way more than that. You'll want to pay close attention to everything on the website.

Figure 3.1 – Investigating a website

In Figure 3.1, we can see a couple of pieces of information on this main page. First, on the left side, they've provided information on how to set up Microsoft Outlook with their particular email product. I already clicked through and saw how to set up via Microsoft Exchange 2003, where they also gave me the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) servers they utilize. Later, I'll describe...