FOOTPRINTING - FIRST PHASE OF HACKING

Hi Friends, today I am going to say about the First Phase of hacking i.e. FootPrinting also known as Information Gathering. While you are going to hack or Test Organization or Network then you need some Information, that’s why this is the first phase of Hacking.

:: About ::

Footprinting is the process of gathering and collecting data with respect to network or system. This is usually done with the intent of Intruding into a system. This reveals the system vulnerabilities and weaknesses that can be used to gain access or attack a system.

:: Types ::

Active: Directly gathers information from websites like web servers, banner grabbing web server, banner grabbing FTP server. This is not a attack but gathering information directly.

Passive: Gathering information from third party sources like Yahoo, Google, Bing, also from Social Sites, in simple words, information available publicly.

:: Steps ::

1} Finding Initial Information.

2} The address range of the network.

3} Search active machines.

4} Find open ports or access points.

5} What are the OS.

6} Which services are running in each port.

7} lastly map out the network.

:: Tools ::

Who.is is a query and response process that is used for querying database. These database store the registered users of an Internet resources. The resources could include domain name, IP, Address, Owner Name, Emails, Contact Numbers, etc. If you search this in Google you can get many online who.is tools. I prefer this use it.

Who.IS

Thank You, Later on I will discuss about Scanning, Banner Grabbing Wait for it…. I will back soon

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