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Open-source reconnaissance

Open-source reconnaissance

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Open-source reconnaissance

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- [Instructor] There are two other tools that you should be familiar with as you prepare for the exam. The first of these is Maltego. Maltego is an open-source tool that focuses on open-source intelligence gathering, connecting data points together through a graphical user interface. Maltigo'S interface provides a way to understand and document correlations and hierarchies. It relies on the concepts of transforms, actions taken by a server that provide additional data or processing about objects and entities. Recon-ng is a module-based reconnaissance tool that uses a command line interface built into Kali Linux for easy access. Recon-ng provides access to a marketplace of plugin modules that offer specific tools for open-source reconnaissance. For example, one of those modules provides an interface to the Shodan open-source intelligence search engine. Another module provides an interface to Nmap for active information gathering.

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