Foot printing explained

welcome to Hacking A Rise guys in this post we talk about foot printing (aka recon ) the first stage of all hacks it dont matter if your a script kidie or a pro hacker we all need to do are recon before we attempt to hack are target gaving its a company,person what ever it maybe so were going to explain what foot printing (recon) is so lets start with the two types of recon active and passive

(note) this a short description of footpriting if u want to learn more we will be starting live steams via twitch

What is active foot printing

active foot printing is were you actively go to the target and make contact may it be talking on the phone sending a email contacting employees or visiting the company this is more hands on recon.

what is passive foot printing

passive foot printing is more public this info can be obtained online with search engines social media people search .

befits of foot printing

So the befits of foot printing well lets put it this way the more info the easier the hack will be here a list of befits

social engineering

smaller area of focus

lets us know what vulnerabilities in the server,network or site

map there network to help yous find a easy target to exploit

lets us know that security they have

common ways to do your recon

we will start with active recon there only one way to describe active recon its like you are planning to rob the place
dumpster diving you can get info by going true the trash its a messy job but fuck it hahaha
applying for a job
ring the target or company
contacting them on social media this includes the employees of a company or the target
emailing them
visiting the target or company

now we move on to passive recon
passive foot printing is the public info like there Facebook page as info that we can use to manipulate are targets like hobbies,movies,family members stuff like that
we can also use search engines like google ,yahoo ,bing ,duckduck so on ….. or we can use people search to find are target but me personally i use google dorks to help me narrow down my search.

so lads now under stand the why we need to do are recon this the frist part of are section on foot footprinting (recon) even tho it is short u can understand why we need it