What is Footprinting?

Footprinting is also known as Reconnaissance, is the technique used for gathering information about target computer systems and the entities they belong to. To get this information, a hacker might use various tools and technologies. This information is very useful to a hacker who is trying to crack a whole system.

We perform footprinting with the help of various tools which are already installed in Kali-Linux some of these tools are Nmap, Whois, dig, thHaverster, curl, nslookup, nikto, dnsenum, etc and in android u have to install it in Termux. There also some website which you can use to perform footprinting, some of these websites are; google hacking database, shodan, etc.

Information to be gathered using Footprinting.

If the attack is to be performed on a company, then the following information will be gathered.
Company details, Employee Details and their E-mail addressses.
Relation with other companies.
Project details involving other companies.
Legal documents of the company.
News relating company website.
Patents and Trademarks regarding that particular company.
Important dates regarding new projects.

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How To Protect Your System From KeyLoggers

KeyLoggers have been a major problem today as it does not require any Prior Knowledge of Computers to use it. So it is often used by Hackers to steal the Passwords, Credit card Numbers and Other confidential information from your computers....

To protect your system from keyloggers you need to install a good antivirus on your systems.

This is the First step you need to take in order to protect your system(s) from keyloggers and Other Online THREATS....

Secondly, use a good antispyware.

If you are frequent on the Internet, then you could be exposed to spywares on the Internet. Since KeyLoggers are spywares, It is better to Install a Good antispyware program.

Thirdly, use an antilogger.

Antiloggers are Programs that Detect  the Presence of KeyLoggers on a system.

Finally, use KEYSCRAMBLER.

KEYSCRAMBLER is one of the best program that offer protection against KeyLoggers, it is small program which encrypts your keystrokes so that, even if your computer has a KeyLogger installed on it , then only the Encrypted Keystrokes are captured by the KeyLogger and not the Actual ones...

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