What Is a Footprinting?
Footprinting is a part of reconnaissance process which is used for gathering possible information about a target computer system or network.Footprinting is basically the first step where hacker gathers as much information as possible to find ways to intrude into a target system or at least decide what type of attacks will be more suitable for the target.Footprinting is a part of reconnaissance process which is used for gathering possible information about a target computer system or network.Footprinting is basically the first step where hacker gathers as much information as possible to find ways to intrude into a target system or at least decide what type of attacks will be more suitable for the target.The purpose of footprinting to learn as much as you can about a system, it’s remote access capabilities, its ports and services, and the aspects of its security
Techniques used for Footprinting
- 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
During this phase, a hacker can collect the following information-
Domain name
- IP Addresses
- Namespaces
- Employee information
- Phone numbers
- E-mails
- Job Information
SOME OF THE TECHNIQUES ARE-
- DNS QUERIES-
- NETWORK ENUMERATION-
- NETWORK QUERIES-
- Ping sweeps-
- Port scanning-
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