Footprinting February 16, 2010 MIS 4600 – MBA © Abdou Illia

Objectives  Discuss footprinting and how it is accomplished  Identify resources that can be used in footprinting  Footprint public web pages 2

What is Footprinting? 3  Footprinting = Process of collecting information about an organization, its network, its IP address ranges and the people who use them  Footprinting is conducted through social engineering and by researching information  from printed resources  From online resources  Footprinting tools/techniques  Gathering WHOIS information  Performing web reconnaissance  DNS interrogation

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