Importance Of Penetration Testing For Legacy Operating System

Penetration testing is very important technique to find vulnerabilities in commercial networks. There are various techniques for ethical hacking via penetration testing. This report explains a white hat hacker approach of penetration testing. I have performed this test on private network where three PCs are connected through LAN via switch and without firewall. This network is not connected with Internet. All the PCs have windows operating system. The attacker host has windows server 2003 with Service Pack1, second host has windows XP with Service Pack 2 and third host has windows 2000 with service pack 4.

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[1] http://wi-fiplanet.webopedia.com/TERM/A/active_reconnaissance.html

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[5] http://www.metasploit.com/projects/Framework/

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[7] http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/547820

[8] http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/568148

[9] http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-039.mspx See Technical Details.