Reconnaissance | Information Gathering
Reconnaissance | Information Gathering Reconnaissance is the act of gathering preliminary data or intelligence on your target. The data is gathered in order to better plan for your attack. Reconnaissance can be performed actively (meaning that you are directly touching the target) or passively (meaning that your recon is being performed through an intermediary). Reconnaissance divide into two phases :- 1. Passive Reconnaissance :- During Information Gathering phase, Passive information gathering will take place before we move on to Active information gathering. Passive information gathering is relatively less aggressive than active information gathering. Unlike active information gathering which requires much more direct engagement with the target, passive does not. Passive information gathering uses publicly published information about the target organization by using Google Hacking (aka. Google Dorks), The Wayback Machine, Job postings, NetCraft, Whois sea