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Footprinting is a part of reconnaissance process that is used to collect potential information about a target computer system or network. Footprinting can be both passive and active. Reviewing the company's website is an example of passive footprint, while attempts to gain access to sensitive information through social engineering is an example of collecting active information.

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Footprinting is basically the first step where hacker collects as much information as possible to find ways to infiltrate into a target system, or at least determine which type of attack is more appropriate for the goal.

During this phase, a ethical hacker can collect the following information -

*domain name
*IP address
*Namespace
*Employee Information
*phone number
*E-mail
*Job information
In the following section, we will discuss how to remove basic and easily accessible information about any computer system or network that is connected to the internet.

Domain Name Information
To get detailed information about a domain name information including your boss, his registrar, date of registration, expiration, name server, contact information of the owner, etc. http://www.whois.com/whois Can be used.

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Always keep your domain name profile private to hide the above information from potential hackers.

Finding IP Addresses
You can use the ping command at your prompt. This command is available on Windows as well as on Linux OS. The following is an example for detecting IP address of tutorialspot.com
Finding a Hosting Company
Once you have the address of the website, you can get more details using the ip2location.com website. The following example is to know the details of the IP address -

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Here the ISP line tells you in detail about the hosting company because IP addresses are usually provided by hosting companies only.

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If a computer system or network is directly connected to the Internet, you can not hide the IP address and related information such as the hosting company, its location, the ISP, etc. If you have a very sensitive data server, then it is recommended to keep it behind a secure proxy so that hackers can not get the exact details of your actual server. In this way, any potential hacker will be difficult to access directly to your server.

Another effective way to hide your system IP and eventually all related information is to go through a virtual private network (VPN). If you configure a VPN, the entire traffic route through the VPN network, so your correct IP address as specified by your ISP is always hidden.

IP address limitations

Small sites may have a single IP address associated with them, but large websites usually have many IP addresses serving different domains and subdomains.

You can obtain a series of IP addresses assigned to a particular company using the US Registry for Internet Number (ARIN).

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You can enter the name of the company in the highlighted search box to find out the list of all the assigned IP addresses of that company.

Website history

Getting complete history of any website is very easy using www.archive.org.

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You can enter a domain name in the search box to find out how the website was looking at a certain time and what page was available on the website at different dates.

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Although there are some advantages to placing your website in an archive database, but if you do not like to see anyone see how your website moves through different stages, then you request a request from Architeco to delete your website's history. can do.