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theHarvester

theHarvester

- [Narrator] The Harvester is a Python script that can be incredibly useful when performing initial reconnaissance of an organization. Now, this might be you as a cybersecurity professional running a penetration test, or it may be an attacker performing the initial reconnaissance during their early stages of an attack. You give the Harvester a domain name, and it will go out and scan dozens of different sources, looking for IP addresses, email addresses, and servers associated with that domain that you can then use as potential targets as you're trying to build the progress of your penetration test or your attack. Let's give the Harvester a try. Now, remember the Harvester is a Python script, so I'm going to start Python and tell it to run the script theHaverster.py. And then I'm just going to provide you with a few arguments. The first thing I'm going to provide, using the minus-D flag, is the domain name that I would…

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