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Welcome to Pluralsight and this red team tools course featuring Recog‑ng,

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the open source technical information‑gathering tool

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developed and maintained by yours truly,

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Tim Tomes, otherwise known as lanmaster53.

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As a red team operator, you've often faced the dilemma of how much time,

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if any, to commit to technical information‑gathering.

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I get it.

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I've been there.

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You may spend hours scouring the internet and end up with nothing but

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a few assumptions about your target environment.

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On the other hand,

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you may end up with uncovering a critical data leak

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that could lead to direct compromise.

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While the latter is less likely,

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what if you could reduce the time spent conducting

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information‑gathering activities while increasing your

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chances of finding that critical leak?

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This is exactly what Recon‑ng was designed to do.

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Recon‑ng is actually the original name for a script that

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evolved into what is now the Recon‑ng framework.

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When Recon‑ng was initially released,

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it sought to harvest information in ways that were not being done by

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mainstream tooling and has since become a framework of functionality the

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community uses to build and share modules that provide the next generation of

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technical information‑gathering capabilities.

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Whether you're looking to begin making assumptions about a target

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environment or collect information to conduct a specific attack,

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join me to learn tips and tricks for installation and

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general operation of Recon‑ng today.