Ethical Hacking: Footprinting and Reconnaissance

Learn the concepts, tools, and techniques behind footprinting: ethical hacking techniques for finding information about computers and the people they belong to.

Introduction

• Scouting the target
• What you should know
• Hacking Ethically

Uncovering Information

• Footprinting and Reconnaissance
• Using Competitive Intelligence
• Investigating Business Sites
• Searching and Google Hacking
• Employing Social Engineering
• Gathering data on people
• Tracking Online Reputation

Using Email and Websites

• Harvesting Email Addreses
• Examining Websites
• Scraping Websites
• Challenge: Mirroring a website
• Solution: Mirroring a website
• Monitoring websites

Searching the Network

• Footprinting using DNS
• Examining a Zone Transfer
• Generating Domain Names
• Determining the Path
• Determining the Path

Discovering Reconnaissance tools

• Using OSINT Tools
• Investigating Email
• Footprinting VoIP and VPNs
• Going to the Dark Web
• Exploring other footprinting tools

Footprinting Capstone

• Conducting a Forensic Exercise
• Examining an email
• Diving into an email header
• Verifying IP blocklists

Wrapping up the Recon

• Guarding Social Media
• Writing Footprinting Reports
• Countering Footprinting
• Next steps