Information Security Bytes

              The post is to demonstrate the basic usage of Reconnaissance tools like Recon-ng, Netcraft etc. These are quite useful and must have tools being a pen tester. As we know that being a pen tester, its very important to gather target information as much as possible. The tools can help you collect enough useful information like, Scanning target for possible subdomains registered, IP addresses, ports numbers, geo location etc... Gathering Subdomain Information Using recon-ng application is quite easier as it has various modules. In addition to this, we can use Netcraft to collect additional information as follows: Disclaimer: The sites used here are solely for educational purpose as its a freely available site to validate Pen testing capabilities and has no intention to harm. 1. To open the application, type the command as below Execute the command as follows to invoke recon-ng application 2. Using Netcraft with Recon-...