Back to basics

For some time I've felt the need to review my information gathering and discovery skills. With many IT shops now doing regular vulnerability scanning, it's a lot harder to use Nessus as a jumping off point for a (glorified) pentest. Instead I'd prefer to use other things, surreptitious port scans, network-related vulnerabilities, even printer exploitation. The latter is an area I'd long avoided as hitting printers could cause DoS conditions, but am learning more about as of late.

One good thing might be to finally go through the list of Kali Linux tools and try each one out during a pentest. This would be hands-on-keyboard experience and would be very useful. Sometimes I browse a bit and quickly discovery items that could be handy.