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Information Gathering

Why gather information?

  Avoids reinventing the wheel.

• Helps you to gain a deep understanding of the issue so that you can address it properly.
•You need all the tools possible to create the best program you can.
•It can help you ensure your program is culturally sensitive.
• Knowing what’s been done in a variety of other circumstances and understanding the issue from a number of different viewpoints may give you new insights and new ideas for your program.

Information Gathering Tools


Maltego
www.paterva.com
•Maltego is an intelligence and forensics application.
•It allows for the mining and gathering of information as well as the representation of this information in a meaningful way.


Google Hacking

Social Information Gathering: Maltego
•Maltego is a unique platform developed to deliver a clear threat picture to the environment that an organization owns and operates
• Maltego’s unique advantage is to demonstrate the complexity and severity of single points of failure as well as trust relationships that exist currently within the scope of your infrastructure.

Nmap (Network Scanner)

Nmap (Network Mapper) is a security scanner originally
written by Gordon Lyonused to discover hosts and services on
a computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network.


Nmap - Objective:

Find open TCP and/or UDP listeners on a single or range of TCP/IP Addresses
• Find out software versions
• Find out operating system type
• Learn what you have on your network

Most valuable TCP ‘ping’ ports:

80 (HTTP)
•25 (SMTP)
•22 (SSH)
•443 (HTTPS)
•21 (FTP)
•113 (AUTH)
•23 (TELNET)
•53 (DNS)
•554 (RTSP)
•1723 (PPTP)

Wegversity.com

•Visit wegversity.com for all resources at one place.

IP Tracing

If you can find out the IP address of an Internet user, you can get an idea
•what part of the country or world they're in by using the IP Lookup tool
•The ISP and organization's name
•The IP's host name
•The country it's in
•The region/state
•The city (a best guess)
•The latitude and longitude of the location (a best guess)
•The area code for that region
•Any known services running on that IP.
Link for reference: http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup

Email tracing

•This Trace Email tool can help you precisely to track down (or trace) where an email that you received came from. It works by examining the header (that is a part of the emails you receive) to find the IP address and thereby, trace its origin.
•Steps to trace an email:
1.Open the email you want to trace and find its header.
2.Copy the header, then paste it into the Trace Email Analyzer box.
3.Press the "Get Source" button and verify the location.
Link for reference:
http://whatismyipaddress.com/trace-email

Blacklist check

•With Blacklist check, you can see if your IP address is listed on any anti-spam database.
•If you are involved in spamming or other unwanted online behavior, your IP address could get blacklisted and blocked.
•It will get flagged and land on one or more of these databases.
•You'll be able to see that here at any time by running a new blacklist check:
http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check

Speed tests

•Speed test tells us about the strength of your internet connection, upload and download speeds.
•Link for reference: http://www.speedtest.net
Email Verification
•Verify your email address here: http://ipaddress.com/verify-email-address/

Keyword and Ranking:

This is a useful tool that can help you analyze any website.
It provides you with information such as:
•Website Load Time
•How to optimize your website?
•Website SEO Score
•Website Daily Page-views
•Website Daily Visitors
•Website Daily Revenue
•Website Worth
•Website Server Location
Link for reference: http://www.statscrop.com


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