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There are many saying about knowing your enemy, time and time again these sayings have proved to be true. Today we hear all around the work of hackers and many-a-times we fail to protect ourselves. This happens because we are not familiar with their working process. Therefore, in this article, we are here to make to accustomed to the first step of the process i.e. Footprinting.

In the world of Cyber Security, Footprinting is the first step which lets penetration testers gather information about hardware or network. It is basically an exploration process which helps us to know our enemy. In order to complete the penetration process, one ought to gather as much information as possible. Footprinting can be done either actively or passively. Assessing a company’s website with their permission is an illustration of passive footprinting and trying to access sensitive information through social engineering is an illustration of active information gathering.

Types of Footprinting:
Footprinting through Search Engine
Footprinting through social engineering
Footprinting through Social Networking sites
Website Footprinting
Competitive Intelligence
WHOIS Footprinting
Footprinting using advanced Google hacking techniques
Email Footprinting
DNS Footprinting
Network Footprinting
As this is the first part of our footprinting series, we will discuss the first three types of footprinting.

Footprinting through Search Engine

Footprinting through the search engine is unambiguous in itself. People often wonder what one can find through the search engine as the common concept of the search engine is basic exploring. But results given by the search engine can be used to hacker’s advantage as they are vast in nature.

Attackers use search to gather information about their target such as technology platforms, employee details, login pages, intranet portals, etc. which helps in performing social engineering and/or other types of advanced system attacks.

Even search engine cache and internet archives may provide sensitive information that has been removed from the World Wide Web (WWW).

There are many search engines where you can find anything that desires from finding the meaning of the word to finding a person. Such search engines are:

www.google.com

www.bing.com

www.shodan.io

www.duckduckgo.com

Now let’s take the example of google.com. If I search “Raj Chandel” on Google, then it will give me every possible result associated with the said person.