NetBIOS enumeration
What is NetBIOS? Well, let's put our memory caps on and take a trip down memory lane. NetBIOS has been around for some time and is often mistaken as a protocol. It stands for Network Basic Input Output System, and it's technically a program that allows applications on different systems to talk to each other over LAN.
Warning
Some of the things you see, especially when it comes to NetBIOS, might be a little outdated. We'll talk about why we still cover it, why we still talk about it, and why it's relevant today.
It was created by IBM back in the old days. IBM kind of left it behind and Microsoft adopted it. Since then, NetBIOS has become an industry standard. It's used on Ethernet, and if you're old school, it's also used in Token Ring. If you are familiar with Token Ring, I'm not referencing anything about hobbits… NetBIOS is used inside of the options when we are inside Windows. If we go into the network...
