Ethical Hacking

Why Perform Footprinting?

Footprinting is about gathering information and formulating a hacking strategy. With proper care you, as the attacking party, may be

Now let’s circle back around to the first step in the process of ethical hacking: footprinting. Footprinting, or reconnaissance, is

For an overview of the process, let’s look at the steps of ethical hacking to see where foot-printing fits in

Cryptography can be applied in communication of data and information, which we will see in the form of IPSec, SSL,

Much like any system that will be explored in this text, cryptography has its faults and potential attacks. Attacks are

Symmetric algorithms do some things really well and other things not so well. Modern symmetric algorithms are great at all

You will encounter cryptography in many forms throughout this book. It is applied to many different technologies and situations and,

As with the ancient Egyptians and Romans, who used secret writing methods to obscure trade or battle information and hunting

you can learn things by studying the history of cryptography that can help you relate to the techniques a little

Windows Although there are many different operating systems, in all likelihood it will be a flavor of Microsoft’s Windows OS