Goals of Footprinting in hacking 2

Operating system information

One of the must critical part of any system is the Operating System, commonly known as OS. Operating system is the system which serves as an interface between the device and the user. Hacker or Ethical hacker needs to have information regarding the target system OS.

Below are the information that needs to gathered:-

User and group information and names
Banner grabbing
Routing tables
SNMP (Simple network management protocol): This protocol deals with maintenance and operation of the network. It again aids in exchange of information between network devices.

System architecture
Remote system data
System names
Passwords

Organizational data

This are non technical data regarding the organization. As I already mentioned before, one of the simplest way to hack an organization is getting access to non-technical staff. Extracting of information from such insider is very simple. Again non-technical staffs always use weak passwords like date of birth, names etc.

Non-technical data can play a vital roll in the footprinting process.

Below are the main target in organizational data footprinting:-

Employee details
Organization’s website
Company directory
Location details
Address and phone numbers
Comments in HTML source code
Security policies implemented
Web server links relevant to the organization
Background of the organization
News articles and press releases

Reference: Sybex CEH

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