From the course: Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
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Footprinting through different services
From the course: Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
Footprinting through different services
- [Instructor] Footprinting Through Different Services. In this lesson, we're going to learn about footprinting using different web and online services. So let's go ahead and get started. So footprinting through social networking sites, this is a way of footprinting your target. So using social network is one of the best information sources. You know it's popular, widely used. Social networking sites have a lot of information, they make it quite easy to find on information about someone. You know this information includes personal and sensitive information. Now in this graph right here, you see a table that we have set up. On one side it says what users do, and on the other side is what attackers achieves or what information that attackers get out of it. So people maintain their profiles by updating personal and professional information, locations, photos, family events, things like that. But you don't realize that when you update those things on the right hand side, this is what the…
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