Scanning is an active information gathering technique in which we will now start dealing with the target directly. Port scanning is an interesting process of information gathering. It involves a deeper search of the target machine, but since active port scanning involves reaching out to the target systems, these activities can be detected by firewalls and intrusion prevention systems.
Active information gathering with Metasploit
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