Hey Friend,
Today i am here to tell you about Footprinting.
Footprinting
" Footprinting is defined as the collection of all the information of the victim gathered."
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"A fine art of gathering target information of the victim."
Types of Footprinting
1-Active Footprinting
2-Passive Footprinting
Active Footprinting -
In this Footprinting , Hackers/Attacker does not make any direct connection but they can use same source by download as it is, to reduce risk and able to find out almost all the loopholes .
Example is google database hacking.
Passive Footprinting -
In Passive Footprinting, Hacker/Attacker does not make any direct connection/relation with the victim system.
All the information gathered by using internet (via google search ,web sites,social networking etc)
By Somesh Sah
