Abstract The act of performing network reconnaissance can mean the difference between a successful penetration test, and a failed one. Without taking the time to gather as much information as one can on a target network or system the attacker is going in blind, and might be caught in the process. In order to alleviate that concern the question is not whether or not to perform network recon; but whether or not to perform active network recon or passive network recon. While laboratory two dea

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CIS Security Metrics Guide (v. 1.0.0) has been out for a while, I just forgot to announce it here on my blog. The document is definitely a work in progress and the team (myself included) has a lot to do to make it better; some metrics might even change and new ones added. BTW, the project goal was to “develop a balanced combination of unambiguous and logically defensible outcome and practice metrics measuring” and also to “utilize data commonly available in most enterprises.” Since I co

Hi, Diva Susan, I read 'The dreaded "Stuck on update 3 out of 3" issue' in your "The correct way to install Vista Service Pack 2" item today. Unfortunately, the MS terror is not limited to Vista SP2 and IE8. I got the daily dreaded popup from the June 2009 "Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista (KB967632)" since 11 days ago until I stopped the Automatic Updates about 5 days ago. What is worse is that I have only one restore point dated today. So those advices in your artic

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