{"id":33949,"date":"2021-05-19T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T07:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/?p=33949"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T08:16:05","slug":"what-is-footprinting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/blog-ciberseguridad\/que-es-footprinting\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Footprinting?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We call Footprinting<\/strong> (also known as recognition), to one of the phases prior to the cyber attack<\/strong>, is the process of collecting as much information as possible about what we want to \u201chack\u201d to locate vulnerabilities and ways to access it. To obtain this information the \u201chacker\u201d<\/strong> You can use various tools and processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Information collected by the \u201chacker\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Footprinting is basically a previous step to the cyber attack where the \u201chacker\u201d<\/strong> Gather all the information you can about your victim<\/strong> to find ways to access the system or decide what cyber attacks<\/strong> They would be the most successful against their target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally the information <\/strong>What they usually collect is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Domain name<\/li>
  • IP addresses<\/li>
  • Operating system used<\/li>
  • Employee information<\/li>
  • Telephone numbers<\/li>
  • Email addresses<\/li>
  • Etc.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"what<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    A ethical hacker <\/strong>You usually spend most of your time protecting a network or organization, collecting information about the host, the network, the computers, and the people related to the system, through the security phase. Footprinting<\/strong> It will help you identify vulnerabilities that we detect during reconnaissance and strengthen our system against possible threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Types of Footprinting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    There are two types of Footprinting that we can use: Active and passive footprinting<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • Active Footprinting<\/strong>, is the most tedious process to obtain information, where we will use tools and techniques to do so. For example, we can perform a sweep of ping<\/em> to collect information about the target or use the command traceroute<\/em>.<\/li>
    • Passive Footprinting<\/strong>In this lighter process, for example, we review a company's website, visit employee profiles on social networks, search on Google for the target to be hacked, or search for the website in WHOIS.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Obtaining information from a website is very easy, you just have to access the address<\/strong>: https:\/\/www.dondominio.com\/whois\/ and search for the page we want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Let's do an example of WHOIS to the Amazon website<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      As we can see in the result it gives us all the domain information<\/strong>, he administrative contact<\/strong>, he technician and servers.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      From EIP we tell you what Footprinting is and everything you should take into account if you suffer this cyber attack. Do not miss it! <\/p>","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":33960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-ciberseguridad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}