{"id":8316,"date":"2012-11-19T22:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T04:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8316"},"modified":"2012-11-19T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T03:28:13","slug":"better-defense-through-open-source-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8316","title":{"rendered":"Better Defense Through Open-Source Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Reconnaissance<\/strong>, while commonly overlooked and discounted, is a key phase providing successful targeted attackers (and penetration testers) with information about the target, the target&#8217;s server and application technologies in use, employees, location, and much more. Often called <strong>OSINT, or open-source intelligence<\/strong> because it uses publicly available sources, the recon phase is anything that can help the attacker obtain his goal. <strong>Security pros can leverage the same tools and techniques as the attackers<\/strong> to identify unintentionally exposed devices on the Internet and users leaking sensitive information via social networking sites, and address those issues before they&#8217;re used during an actual attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/security\/vulnerabilities\/240142294\/tech-insight-better-defense-through-open-source-intelligence.html\">Tech Insight: Better Defense Through Open-Source Intelligence &#8211; Dark Reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s also the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shodanhq.com\/\" target=\"new\">Shodan computer search engine<\/a> that contains service banners from Internet-accessible servers all over the world. Security pros can find all sorts of juicy information, like<strong> internal network and host names exposed through DNS,<\/strong> or unintentionally exposed services that Shodan has found without scanning or touching the target network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reconnaissance, while commonly overlooked and discounted, is a key phase providing successful targeted attackers (and penetration testers) with information about the target, the target&#8217;s server and application technologies in use, employees, location, and much more. Often called OSINT, or open-source &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8316\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[136,520,101],"class_list":["post-8316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-dns","tag-enterprise","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8322,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8316\/revisions\/8322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}