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« on: October 01, 2010, 06:51:34 AM »
Hello.

I haven't noticed any course or book about only information gathering (infrastructure & personal data). Also there is some non-official classes of penetration expertises (like exploits development, social engineering, malware analysis, forensics, wireless, etc.). Why is not Information Gathering a class for itself?
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« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2010, 08:52:50 AM »
Do a search for open source information gathering. There's a ton of resources already available. Chris Gates has a good presentation that's an overview of a lot of the tools that are out there. Google Hacking by Johnny Long is an excellent written resource. Most ethical hacking/penetration testing books contain recon chapters that adequately cover common tools and techniques.
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« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2010, 08:57:11 AM »
Information Gathering is a vital part of penetration testing and is covered in detail in good security books(Hacking exposed ?) and in good security courses(OSCP?).. I admit that I dont know a book dedicated to information gathering.. But if you are looking for advances in this area you should probably start with Chris Gates presentation on open source intelligence gathering at brucon...

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« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2010, 09:44:00 AM »
Check out SANS 550 - Information Reconnaissance: Competitive Intelligence and Online Privacy. It is a one day class that talks about nothing but recon.

There's even a review on EH-Net:

http://www.ethicalhacker.net/content/view/284/2/
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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2010, 05:49:19 AM »
Googling with "Open Source IG" has given me lots of results. It kept me busy for weekend.  Cool

Before posting I was wondering how to go "beyond" information gathering, since I'm doing OSCP and already saw Chris Gates presentation.

So thanks for replies, they have given me more to work on.
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« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2010, 09:09:48 AM »
There's a good chapter about Information Gathering in The Penetration Testers Open Source Toolkit vol. 2 (book).

Tactical Exploitation by Valsmith and HD Moore has a good part too:
http://blog.attackresearch.com/publications/hdmoore_valsmith_tactical_paper.pdf

And of course: Information Gathering with MaXe - Part 1 (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nd6vAz4SOw

That's just a few resources to get you started  Wink



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« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2010, 11:56:05 AM »
do try Maltego v3 Community Edition ...... its awsome
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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2010, 06:54:35 AM »
I have tried Maltego V3, great tool.

One questions: Is it possible to get a good book which will teach python from basic, but has to be focused more on python scripting for data, text and web mining?
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« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2010, 03:26:57 PM »
Quote from: Determ on October 17, 2010, 06:54:35 AM
I have tried Maltego V3, great tool.

One questions: Is it possible to get a good book which will teach python from basic, but has to be focused more on python scripting for data, text and web mining?


Cant say much on that , check out amazon.com and check the comments of readers . Along with that do check out LinuxCBT Python Programing edition ( Video Training ) . I dont think its that expensive .
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