HACKERS FIRST STEP
Footprinting
Footprinting (also known as reconnaissance) is the technique used for gathering information about computer systems and the entities they belong to. To get this information, a hacker might use various tools and technologies. This information is very useful to a hacker who is trying to crack a whole system.
- DNS queries
- Network enumeration
- Network queries
- Domain name
- IP address
- NameSpaces
- Operating system identification
- Organizational queries
- Phone Number
- Emails
- Job information
- Ping sweeps
- Point of contact queries
- Port Scanning
- Registrar queries (WHOIS queries)
- SNMP queries
- World Wide Web spidering
Crawling is the process of surfing the internet to get the required information about the target. The sites surfed can include the target’s website, blogs and social networks. The information obtained by this method will be helpful in other methods too.
If the attack is to be performed on a company,then the following information will be gathered.
- Company details,employee details and their email addressses.
- Relation with other companies.
- Project details involving other companies.
- Legal documents of the company.
- News relating company website.
- Patents and Trademarks regarding that particular company.
- Important dates regarding new projects.
Types of Footprinting:
- Footprinting through Search Engine.
- Footprinting through social engineering.
- Footprinting through Social Networking sites.
- Website Footprinting.
- Competitive Intelligence.
- WHOIS Footprinting.
- Footprinting using advanced Google hacking techniques.
- Email Footprinting
- DNS Footprinting
- Network Footprinting
Domain name Information
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Finding IP address
You can use PING CMD at your CMD PROMPT
ping Facebook.com
ping google.com
ping kumaratuljaiswal.in
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Finding Hosting Company
www.ip2location.com
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IP address Range
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History of the website
www.archive.org
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