What is passive reconnaissance, so passive reconnaissance involves gathering information about like
a target or target network without actually, you know, connecting to them at all.
You know, typically passive reconnaissance involves using, you know, intelligence.
You might have seen this on the Internet somewhere as U.S. and you're using that to gather information
about your target.
So it just means that you're pretty much going to utilize any publicly available information that you
can find on the Internet to formulate your attack, which is actually illegal because it's publicly
available.
And, you know, this allows you to not be detected while you're gathering very useful information.
So what is active reconnaissance then, active reconnaissance actually involves gathering information
about the target while initiating connections, you know, to them you're actually going to be contacting
this target.
Typically, active reconnaissance involves using a variety of tools, like maybe a port scanner or a
vulnerability scanner or something to gather information.
Now, this allows you to gather more useful information and a lot more sensitive information.
But it's going to allow you to also be detectives.
You have to be very, very careful when you do an active reconnaissance.