Footprinting
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For the molecular biology technique, see DNase footprinting assay.
Footprinting is the technique of gathering information about computer systems and the entities they belong to. This is done by employing various computer security techniques, as:
When used in the computer security lexicon, "footprinting" generally refers to one of the pre-attack phases; tasks performed prior to doing the actual attack. Some of the tool used for footprinting are samspade, nslookup, traceroute, Nmap and neotrace. |
