Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Intelius and White Pages to pull up what the rest of the world sees about you. From there, it
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calls with these services to limit or remove your personal information from company data-
bases. For more information on public data companies to check and how to remove your
information from them.
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SUMMARY
Information gathering phase can be categorized broadly into seven phases.
Footprinting renders a unique security profile of a target system.
Whois, ARIN can reveal public information of a domain that can be leveraged further.
Traceroute and mail tracking can be used to target specific IP and later for IP spoofing.
Nslookup can reveal specific users and zone transfers can compromise DNS security.