1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:06,680 What is passive reconnaissance, so passive reconnaissance involves gathering information about like 2 00:00:06,690 --> 00:00:11,200 a target or target network without actually, you know, connecting to them at all. 3 00:00:11,370 --> 00:00:15,570 You know, typically passive reconnaissance involves using, you know, intelligence. 4 00:00:15,570 --> 00:00:20,580 You might have seen this on the Internet somewhere as U.S. and you're using that to gather information 5 00:00:20,580 --> 00:00:21,340 about your target. 6 00:00:21,570 --> 00:00:26,490 So it just means that you're pretty much going to utilize any publicly available information that you 7 00:00:26,490 --> 00:00:31,020 can find on the Internet to formulate your attack, which is actually illegal because it's publicly 8 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:31,820 available. 9 00:00:32,100 --> 00:00:37,530 And, you know, this allows you to not be detected while you're gathering very useful information. 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:45,670 So what is active reconnaissance then, active reconnaissance actually involves gathering information 11 00:00:45,670 --> 00:00:51,010 about the target while initiating connections, you know, to them you're actually going to be contacting 12 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:51,960 this target. 13 00:00:51,970 --> 00:00:57,700 Typically, active reconnaissance involves using a variety of tools, like maybe a port scanner or a 14 00:00:57,700 --> 00:01:01,090 vulnerability scanner or something to gather information. 15 00:01:01,310 --> 00:01:06,190 Now, this allows you to gather more useful information and a lot more sensitive information. 16 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,710 But it's going to allow you to also be detectives. 17 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:11,740 You have to be very, very careful when you do an active reconnaissance.