From the course: Ethical Hacking with JavaScript
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Reconnaissance introduction - JavaScript Tutorial
From the course: Ethical Hacking with JavaScript
Reconnaissance introduction
- [Narrator] The goal of doing reconnaissance is to be able to figure out with a set of common tools if there are any issues or open doors for our actors to exploit. In this stage, you evaluate your code. So let's go ahead and open up the project that we just set inside of VS Code, so you can drag and drop inside of VS Code and on Windows you can right-click on the folder and open it in VS Code. And once we have this open here, what we can do is bring up the Terminal, so click on View, Terminal and then do an npm install. The very first step is to go through any messages the console.log could be telling you. When they are messages related to dependencies being deprecated, act on them immediately. So when we first do an npm install with our project you see already some issues with npm audit. So you can do an npm audit, to get a bit more information on these issues. And if you take a look at the list, any of these issues could be exploited. Then you also want to use the latest versions…
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