Tuesday, May 28, 2013

M-1 Footprinting Part 1

Hello, Guys Nice to see you again . I have post many more things on my blog. but the things is combination is not there. so from now i will give you cyber security knowledge through module basis. so u can also understand easily and better.

But do one thing as well, keep practicing it . it will use full for you every time. knowledge Enhancement is very necessary in this field. there is one thing i have to tell you that this Blog is only for EDUCATIONAL purpose. Don't do any illegal activity otherwise punishment will meet you . :)

From now i will give you some important knowledge regarding FOOTPRINTING.


a)Defination of Footprinting

   Footprinting is nothing but a collecting as much as correct information about a target network.
- Collecting basic information about the target and it's network.
- Determine the operating system used platforms running, web servers etc.
- Find vulnerability and exploit for launching attacks.
- performed some techniques Whois, DNS etc.


b)Footprinting Terminology

1) Collecting information about a target form the public accessible sources.
2) Gather information through social engineering on site visits, interviews etc.
3) Gather information from sources where the author of the information can not be identified or trace, we   also called it as anonymous.
4) Collect information that might be published under a different name in an attempt to preserve privacy.
5) Collect information form an organisation web based calender and email services.
6) collect information about a target form the internet .

 Next part we will see about Threats and tools used for this footprinting