The first step in server-side attacks is information gathering. Information gathering is very important because it will show us the operating system of the target, the installed programs, the running services on the target, and the ports associated with these services. From these installed services, we can try and get into the system. We can do this by trying the default passwords. We saw this in the network penetration testing part where the iPad had an SSH service installed that basically gave us full access to the computer if the person still uses the default password, which was alpine. We can do this with any other service, and we will do so further in this section.
There's a lot of people that install services and misconfigure them, so we'll have another example of this as well. Sometimes, a lot of these services are designed to give someone...