Ethical Hacking: Footprinting and Reconnaissance

Course details

Ethical hackers use their knowledge for good: to test if an organization's network is vulnerable to outside attacks. But where do they start? With footprinting and reconnaissance—the process of gathering information about computers and the people to which they belong. In this course, Lisa Bock introduces the concepts, tools, and techniques behind footprinting: finding related websites, determining OS and location information, identifying users through social media and financial services, tracking email, and more. Footprinting relies on tools as simple as a web search and dumpster diving, and as complex as DNS interrogation and traceroute analysis. Lisa shows how to put these nefarious sounding tools to work for good, and mitigate any risks an organization has to these types of attacks.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Scouting the target
02 - What you should know
03 - Hacking Ethically

Uncovering Information

04 - Footprinting and Reconnaissance
05 - Using Competitive Intelligence
06 - Investigating Business Sites
07 - Searching and Google Hacking
08 - Employing Social Engineering
09 - Gathering data on people
10 - Tracking Online Reputation

Using Email and Websites

11 - Harvesting Email Addreses
12 - Examining Websites
13 - Scraping Websites
14 - Challenge - Mirroring a website
15 - Solution - Mirroring a website
16 - Monitoring websites

Searching the Network

17 - Footprinting using DNS
18 - Examining a Zone Transfer
19 - Generating Domain Names
20 - Determining the Path
21 - Determining the Path

Discovering Reconnaissance tools

22 - Using OSINT Tools
23 - Investigating Email
24 - Footprinting VoIP and VPNs
25 - Going to the Dark Web
26 - Exploring other footprinting tools

Footprinting Capstone

27 - Conducting a Forensic Exercise
28 - Examining an email
29 - Diving into an email header
30 - Verifying IP blocklists

Wrapping up the Recon

31 - Guarding Social Media
32 - Writing Footprinting Reports
33 - Countering Footprinting
34 - Next steps