Beginning a career in ethical hacking and penetration testing can be a very exciting and most of the
time our minds will be a bit overwhelmed, causing us to visit only the lectures about exploiting a
system in its course such as this.
So, however, conducting a penetration test is like starting a new project at home.
Before you build a pool in your backyard, there are three things you must consider, such as the space
that's available, the cost of materials, the contractors fees and other details.
Information gathering is a very important phase of the hacking life cycle and penetration testing.
In this lecture, we will focus on passive information gathering techniques and methods.
We will learn how to use the Internet to get us the information and the specific details we need about
our target by using both online resources and tools on Kali Linux.
In this section.
We will be covering these topics.
Reconnaissance and footprinting.
Understanding passive information gathering.
Understanding.
Open source intelligence.
Using the top open source intelligent tools.
We will also find the data leaks in cloud resources.
We will understand who is and copying websites with httrack.
We will also find sub domains using sub lister.
We will also identify the target technologies and security controls.