Ethical Hacking: Footprinting and Reconnaissance

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Free Online Course: Ethical Hacking: Footprinting and Reconnaissance provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Ethical Hacking: Footprinting and Reconnaissance is taught by Lisa Bock.

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
    1. Reconnaisance Overview
    • Footprinting and reconnaissance
    • Using competitive intelligence
    • Search engines and Google hacking
    • Getting social
    • Using AnyWho, Spokeo, Yansi
    • Tracking online reputation
    2. Using Email and Websites
    • Footprinting websites and email
    • Mirroring websites
    • Challenge: Mirroring a website
    • Solution: Mirroring a website
    • Monitoring websites
    • Investigating email
    • OSINT tools
    • Challenge: Understanding email headers
    • Solution: Understanding email headers
    3. Discovering Reconnaissance Tools
    • Footprinting using DNS
    • Domain name generators
    • Understanding ICMP
    • Using Ping and Tracert
    • Analyzing the path
    • nslookup and dig
    Conclusion
    • Footprinting countermeasures
    • Footprinting pen testing and reports
    • Next steps