Welcome to Pluralsight and this red team tools course featuring Recog‑ng,
the open source technical information‑gathering tool
developed and maintained by yours truly,
Tim Tomes, otherwise known as lanmaster53.
As a red team operator, you've often faced the dilemma of how much time,
if any, to commit to technical information‑gathering.
I get it.
I've been there.
You may spend hours scouring the internet and end up with nothing but
a few assumptions about your target environment.
On the other hand,
you may end up with uncovering a critical data leak
that could lead to direct compromise.
While the latter is less likely,
what if you could reduce the time spent conducting
information‑gathering activities while increasing your
chances of finding that critical leak?
This is exactly what Recon‑ng was designed to do.
Recon‑ng is actually the original name for a script that
evolved into what is now the Recon‑ng framework.
When Recon‑ng was initially released,
it sought to harvest information in ways that were not being done by
mainstream tooling and has since become a framework of functionality the
community uses to build and share modules that provide the next generation of
technical information‑gathering capabilities.
Whether you're looking to begin making assumptions about a target
environment or collect information to conduct a specific attack,
join me to learn tips and tricks for installation and
general operation of Recon‑ng today.