Footprinting
Sign in to saveFootprinting (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.
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- Techniques used
- Software used
- Uses
- Types
- Crawling
- WHOIS
- Search engines
- Traceroute
- Negative web search
- Information gathered
- References
- See also
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.
When used in the computer security lexicon, "Footprinting" generally refers to one of the pre-attack phases; tasks performed before executing the actual attack. Some of the tools used for Footprinting include Sam Spade, nslookup, traceroute, Nmap and neotrace.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Footprinting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.