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Scenario,
You have just completed your reconnaissance plan describing how you would gather information on
Haverbrook Investment Group. Now you will continue your Penetration Test Proposal by submitting your plans
for scanning the target systems.
In this phase, you know you have to execute more specific scanning methodologies to identify targets of
opportunity and vulnerabilities to be exploited.
As a pen tester, you are going to continue to scan for vulnerabilities, test for open ports, and check for live
systems. You know a few ways to do this, including performing IP sweeps, which might include protocols such
as ICMP, UDP, and TCP, or using techniques such as banner grabbing or OS fingerprinting.
Ultimately, you know that to exploit Haverbrook’s systems, you need a structured and ordered approach.
Instructions
Outline and discuss specific use cases to discover and enumerate information that could be used for potential
exploitation. Some examples of information that you are gathering from Haverbrook Investment Group’s
systems are usernames, machine names, shares, and services from a system. Identify any software,
applications, or scripts that will be needed and provide a description of how this software will be used to gather
information about Haverbrook’s systems.
As you are developing the Scanning Plan, keep these questions in mind:
How would you detect active systems?
How would you determine the best attack vector you wish to exploit?
How would you prioritize different targets of opportunity?
What tools would you be using for scanning and enumeration of systems and vulnerabilities?
identify any needed software and provide a description of how it will be used to gather information
about the systems

 

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nrealistic beauty expectations targeted at young children, yet Mattel Inc. the owner of Barbie, sold over a billion dolls making Barbie the company’s largest and most profitable line (Unknown 2017). In 2006, a study from the University of Sussex found that thin and fair dolls like Barbie created negative and harmful body perceptions for young girls and led to low self-esteem (Unknown 2017). In the study, all 162 participants reported the desire to look like Barbie and had embodied the unrealistic beauty norms (Unknown 2017). However, after being the center of controversary for many years, Mattel Inc. rebranded Barbie and released a new commercial that spreads a positive, less superficial, and more realistic message about beauty (Bondareff 2010). The commercial encourages young children to be or do anything without worrying about the social beauty norms. Mattel Inc. created a doll with dark skin complexion and black dreadlocks breaking the chain of blonde and fair Barbie dolls (Bondareff 2010). Although Mattel Inc. has taken steps towards changing the unrealistic beauty perceptions by creating diverse dolls with different hair textures and skin colours, the doll still pursues the skinny body image (Bondareff 2010).

This case is significant for development of this research question as it demonstrates the complex relations between race and beauty. Whiteness and thinness are perceived as beauty norms which are enforced and normalized in society. Various forms of industries, markets, and companies monitor conceptions of beauty through objects and pursue the conception that beauty is akin to fair skin, long sleek hair, and thinness. As a result, those who do not identify with these notions of beauty, whether is it skin colour, hair texture or body size, perceive themselves as not beautiful.

Annotated Bibliography

Ali, M. Mir, John A. Rizzo and Frank W. Heiland. 2013. “Big and Beautiful? Evidence of Racial

Differences in The Perceived Attractiveness of Obese Females.” Journal of Adolescence,

36(3): 539-549.

This article asserts that physical appearance, especially being attractive, is a valuable and prominent asset in many situations of human interaction. Individuals judgements of others’ appearances are linked to body sizes which are depended on and influenced by a complex set of social and cultural values and norms. Thin bodies are appraised as they are in line with beauty norms while overweight bodies are stigmatized. The authors analyze the relationship between body weight, race and notions of attractiveness. They hypothesize that on various dimensions of attractiveness, white girls and black girls will be ranked differently based on body weights. Data for this study was drawn from the National Longitud

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