Ethical Hacking Week 3
In today’s session, we further learn to gather information.
In the beginning, We use the command prompt and uses the command dig and host to find information about a website. I also find out about my version of kali linux by using the command “uname -a”,
“uname -a”
my kali linux is version 4.14.0 . Next, i search for the founder of linux, and it is a man named Linus Trovalds. He is born in Finland on 1969. He made the first Linux prototype in 1991 and the version 1.0 of linux is released in 1994.
Linus Trovalds
Using the host and dig command i was able to find the ip address of a domain, and using whois command allow user to search for the people behind the website.
Host Command
Dig Command
Whois Command
We also learn about an information to gather information on a person, one of the website used to do this is pipl.com.
We also know that Google can be used for hacking, by using Google dorks, we will be able to get some sensitive documents and informations.
Here is a link to know more operators to use:
https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/use-google-hack-googledorks-0163566/
Before the class ends, we get another test. The test is fortunately open book but it is still difficult to complete. The test is about gathering information from a website by using all the tools that was learnt that day.