What Is Footprinting And How It Is Done: The Complete Guide

Footprinting is a process of gathering information about computer systems for the intent to intrude it. Footprinting is the very first phase of the hacking process. 

As you may already know when a hacker tries to compromise a system he goes through five steps of hacking. 

These five steps of hacking includes: 

#1. Footprinting 

#2. Scanning 

#3. Gaining Access 

#4. Maintaining Access 

#5. Clearing Tracks 

If you often look around for the stuff related to ethical hacking then you must have encountered these term before. So in this post, we are going to discuss the first phase of hacking which happens to be footprinting. 

So if you ever wondered what footprinting is and why it is done? Then you must surely read the post. 

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