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Glen D. Singh
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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Enumerating subdomains

Every day, search engines such as Bing, Google, and Yahoo frequently learn and index new and existing websites to improve their search results. If you search for a company's website, you are likely to discover the main domain name, such as example.com. A lot of organizations create subdomains for various reasons, but as an aspiring penetration tester, discovering all the possible subdomains of a target organization can lead to sensitive locations and resources, such as login portals and sensitive corporate directories, which may contain confidential files and resources.

Working with DNSmap

DNSmap works a bit differently from the tools we looked at in the previous sections. DNSmap attempts to enumerate the subdomains of an organization's domain name by querying a built-in wordlist on Kali Linux. Once a subdomain has been found, DNSmap will also attempt to resolve the IP address automatically.

To get started using DNSmap, please use the following...

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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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