Penetration testing - common examples?

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Published on 2010-04-29T05:38:14Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 5:47 UTC
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Hi, I was charged to do some basic penetration testing on our system. I tried to find some favoured practices but I was not successful. I guess SYN attack is retired (no NT here). Could anyone advice some basic steps of what to test in order to proceed at least very basic penetration test? Thanks

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