Summary

  • The article is the fifth part of the series “Building a Virtual Ethical Hacking Home Lab”
  • The series instructs the reader on creating their own ethical hacking lab using VMware
  • This part focuses on reconnaissance, the first stage of ethical hacking
  • It teaches the reader how to use OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) for information gathering
  • Tools like theHarvester and Sublist3r are used for discovering domains and hosts
  • The article also introduces Nessus, a popular vulnerability scanner, and Metasploitable 3, a virtual machine for practicing penetration testing

By Abdul-mu’min Omotola

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