1.3 Footprinting through Social Networking Sites

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While footprinting through social networking sites may seem social engineering (such is discussed in more detail later), there the two methods. In footprinting through social engineering, revealing information, whereas in footprinting through social gathers information available on those sites. Attackers can even medium to perform social engineering attacks.

Collecting Information through Social Engineering on Social Networking Sites

Social networking sites are the online services, platforms, or other sites that allow people to connect with each other and to build interpersonal relations.

1.2 Footprinting through web services

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Web services such as people search services can provide sensitive information about the target. Internet archives may also provide sensitive information that has been removed from the World Wide Web (‘WWW’). Social networking sites, people search services, alerting services, financial services and job sites provide information about a target such as infrastructure details, physical location, and employee details. Moreover, groups, forums, and blogs can help attackers in gathering sensitive information about a target such as public network information, system information, and personal information. Using this information, an attacker may build a hacking strategy to break into the target organization’s network and may carry out other types of advanced system attacks.

1.1 Footprinting through search engines

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Search engines are the main information sources to locate key information about a target organization. Search engines play a major role in extracting critical details about a target from the Internet. It returns a list of Search Engine Results Pages (‘SERPs’). Many search engines can extract target organization information such as technology platforms, employee details, login pages, intranet portals, contact information and so on. The information helps attacker in performing social engineering and other types of advanced system attacks.

1 Footprinting

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Footprinting *is a first step in the evaluation of the security jlposture of the target organization’s IT infrastructure. Through footprinting and reconnaissance, one can gather maximum information about a computer system or a network and about any devices connected to that network. In other words, footprinting provides security profile blueprint for an organization, and should be undertaken in a methodological manner. In other words

Plan to CEH

In this series of posts, I will write about my journey towards CEHv11 certification,covering the following topics based on the eccouncil online course: