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Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance is the foundation of any successful hacking or penetration testing process. Learn to gather information about a target, such as its infrastructure, systems, vulnerabilities, and potential entry points.

Open-Source Intelligence(OSINT): Sherlock - The Ultimate Username Enumeration Tool
Welcome back, aspiring OSINT investigators! Social media platforms hold a wealth of personal and professional information, making them...
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Cyberwar Mission 2: Reconnaissance in the Adversary's Docker Images
Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! In this series, Aircorridor, our man in Ukraine, takes you along on his real-life cyberwar...
2 min read
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Metasploit Basics, Part 5: Using Metasploit for Reconnaissance (nmap, EternalBlue, SCADA, and MS SQL
Welcome back, my rookie hackers! As you know, reconnaissance is a crucial part of the hacker/pentester's job. Without good...
4 min read
16,782 views

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), Part 2: recon-ng to Identify the Same User on Multiple Platforms
Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! The Internet is the largest data repository the world has ever known! Open Source Intelligence...
3 min read
23,785 views


Open Source Intelligence(OSINT): Scraping Cryptocurrency Wallet Addresses and Balances
Welcome back, my aspiring OSINT investigators! With the growth of the cryptocurrency market in recent years, has come the growth of...
2 min read
8,172 views

Reconnaissance: Scanning and DoSing with Scapy
Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! We have explored a number of packet manipulation tools here on Hackers-Arise that can be very...
5 min read
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BlueTooth Hacking, Part 2: BlueTooth Reconnaissance
The beauty of Bluetooth hacking is that it gives you a clear window into the world of the target. Nearly every device has Bluetooth...
5 min read
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Port Scanning and Reconnaissance with Hping3
Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarrior! One of the most time-consuming, but necessary, activities in hacking is reconnaissance. Before...
6 min read
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OSINT: Scraping email Addresses with TheHarvester
Welcome back, my aspiring OSINT investigators! There are a multitude of tools to scrape email addresses from various locations, but...
3 min read
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Port Scanning and Recon with nmap, Part 2: The nmap scripts (nse)
Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! In my earlier post here at Hackers-Arise, I introduced you to an essential tool in the...
4 min read
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OSINT: How to Use the DNS Cache to Determine the Target's AV Software
Welcome back, my greenhorn hackers! In previous tutorials, we have looked at ways to re-encode your payloads and other malware to evade...
4 min read
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Port Scanning and Recon with nmap, Part 1
Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Whether you are an aspiring master hacker, network engineer or security engineer, there is one...
6 min read
15,539 views

Network Basics for Hackers: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Theory, Reconnaissance and Exp
Welcome back my aspiring cyber warriors! The Simple Network Management Protocol or SNMP is among the least understood protocols, yet so...
6 min read
16,774 views

OSINT, Part 5: Collecting Metadata with Metagoofil
Welcome back, my aspiring cyber warriors! Sometimes the best information is just there for our asking! Given a little knowledge and some...
3 min read
5,557 views

Maltego 4, Part 2: Reconnaissance on a Person (Boris Epshteyn)
Reconnaissance is crucial for successful hacking/pentesting. Maltego is a unique tool for finding data via open source information across...
3 min read
54,656 views

Web App Hacking, Part 12: Comprehensive Web Recon with TIDoS
Welcome back, my aspiring hackers! As I often say, reconnaissance is a crucial part of hacking. You must carefully and thoroughly gather...
4 min read
5,372 views

Exploiting SNMPv1 for Reconnaissance
As you know, the Simple Network Management Protocol uses UDP ports 161 and 162 to manage network devices. Network devices use this...
5 min read
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Using Hping3 for Reconnaissance, Part 1
​ One of the most time-consuming, but necessary, activities in hacking is reconnaissance. Before we can hack a system, we need to know...
6 min read
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Reconnaissance with Unicornscan
Port Scanning with Unicornscan In this section of Hackers-Arise, we have looked at a variety of tools for port scanning and OS...
5 min read
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Scraping Potential Passwords from a Target's Website using CeWL
Welcome back, my novice hackers! In my series on cracking passwords, I began by showing off some basic password-cracking principles;...
3 min read
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