Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Discussion 2022

Running head: ETHICAL HACKING AND PENETRATION TESTING
ETHICAL HACKING AND PENETRATION TESTING
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1ETHICAL HACKING AND PENETRATION TESTING
Discussions
In computers, footprinting is the procedure of accumulation of data regarding a
particular environment of network, usually for the reason of finding ways in order to intrude
into the environment (Hassan & Hijazi, 2018). The footprinting can reveal the vulnerabilities
of the system and upgrade the effortlessness with which they can be subjugated.
The tools those are utilised for footprinting are Sam Spade, nslookup, traceroute,
Nmap and neotrace.
Sam Spade: Sam Spade is a tool that is used in footprinting and it is a windows software tool
that is designed in order to track down sources of the spam of e-mail (Yang et al.,2019). It
was also the name of a free service of web that offers access to the same online tools. Steve
Atkins designed the Sam Spade utility in the year 1997. The features of this software include:
 Transfer of zone
 Decoding URL
 Browse web
 Parse headers of email
 Scanning of addresses
 Relay check of SMTP
Nslookup: nslookup is a command line tool for the administration of the network and it is
available in the operating systems of the computers in order to query the Domain Name
System in order to get the IP address mapping, the domain name, or the other records of DNS
(Mun et al.,2018). Nslookup is a useful command in order to get the information from the
server of DNS. It is a tool of network administration in order to query the Domain Name
System to get the domain name.