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LinkedIn Learning

Ethical Hacking: Footprinting and Reconnaissance

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn the concepts, tools, and techniques behind footprinting: ethical hacking techniques for finding information about computers and the people they belong to.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Scouting the target
  • What you should know
  • Hacking Ethically
Uncovering Information
  • Footprinting and Reconnaissance
  • Using Competitive Intelligence
  • Investigating Business Sites
  • Searching and Google Hacking
  • Employing Social Engineering
  • Gathering data on people
  • Tracking Online Reputation
Using Email and Websites
  • Harvesting Email Addreses
  • Examining Websites
  • Scraping Websites
  • Challenge: Mirroring a website
  • Solution: Mirroring a website
  • Monitoring websites
Searching the Network
  • Footprinting using DNS
  • Examining a Zone Transfer
  • Generating Domain Names
  • Determining the Path
  • Determining the Path
Discovering Reconnaissance tools
  • Using OSINT Tools
  • Investigating Email
  • Footprinting VoIP and VPNs
  • Going to the Dark Web
  • Exploring other footprinting tools
Footprinting Capstone
  • Conducting a Forensic Exercise
  • Examining an email
  • Diving into an email header
  • Verifying IP blocklists
Wrapping up the Recon
  • Guarding Social Media
  • Writing Footprinting Reports
  • Countering Footprinting
  • Next steps

Taught by

Lisa Bock

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