Attended the first lesson of the hacking course yesterday's evening, the teaching was totally different from the 1st introduction lesson previously, where the class was slow moving. It looked like the instructor has finally started his engine and engaged high gears in his teaching.
Two modules were taught, the basics, theories and also introducing the methods and tools that can be obtained in the Internet to gather information. It about Footprinting, meaning to map out the security profile of a organisation. The information gathering activity can be divided into seven phases: Gather inital information, locate network range, ascertain active machine, discover open ports/access points, detect operating systems, uncover services on ports and map the network.
We were told websites such as www.allwhois.com can be used to retrieve domain information and IP addresses. There are also website like www.archive.org, which we can access to checked archived or past webpages of any websites!
The course is getting more exciting now, lesson no. 2 tomorrow...
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