Ethical Hacking – What Is Foot Printing

In this article i ll tell you about thefootprinting technique used for hacking and ethical hacking purposes. 

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Footprinting is  the  technique  of  gathering  information  about  computer  systems  and  theentities they belong to. This is done by employing various computer security techniques, as:

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DNS queries

Network enumeration

 Network queries

 Operating system identification

 Organizational queries

 Ping sweeps

 Point of contact queries

 Port Scanning

 Registrar queries (WHOIS queries)

 SNMP queries

 World Wide Web spidering

Footprinting Methodology :-

Collect Network Information :-

Domain Name -; Networking Protocol

Internal Domain Name -; VPN Points

Network Blocks -; ACLs

IP Address of the reachable system -; IDSes Running

Rogue Website/Private Website -; Analog/Digital Tel. Numbers

TCP and UDP Services Running -; Authentication mechanisms

Collect System Information :-

Users and Groups names -; System architecture 

System Banners -;  Remote System Type 

Routing Banners  -; System Names 

SNMP Information  -; Passwords

Collect Organization’s Information :-

Employee Details – Addresses and Phone ,Numbers ,

Organization’s Website  –;Background on the organization 

Company Directory –;News articles/Press releases

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