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.