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CEH v10 Certified Ethical Hacker Study Guide
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There are a couple of reasons you may want to use open-source intelligence. The first is that you haven’t been provided with any details about your target. You may be doing a true red team against the target company and systems. In that case, you need to locate as much information as you can so you know not only what your attack surface looks like but possible ways in. Additionally, you can find a lot of information about individuals within an organization. This is especially useful because social engineering attacks have a good possibility of success. Having contacts to go after is essential.
The second reason is that organizations aren’t always aware of the amount of information they are leaking. As noted earlier, attackers can find footholds, as well as potential human targets for social engineering attacks. If you are working hand in hand with the company you are performing testing for (that is, you are doing white box testing), you don’...
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