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Glen D. Singh
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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Sub-domain harvesting

Every day, search engines such as Bing, Google, and Yahoo frequently learn and index new and existing websites to improve their search results. If a person searches for a company’s website, you’re likely to discover the primary domain, such as example.com. A lot of organizations create sub-domains for various reasons, but as an aspiring ethical hacker and penetration tester, discovering all the possible sub-domains of a targeted organization can lead to finding sensitive locations and resources, such as login portals and unintentionally exposed corporate directories, which may contain confidential files and resources.

In this section, you’ll learn how to identify sub-domains using DNSMap and Sublist3r.

Enumeration with DNSMap

DNSMap works a bit differently from the tools we looked at in the previous sections. DNSMap attempts to enumerate the sub-domains of a targeted parent domain by querying a built-in wordlist within Kali Linux...

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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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