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Module 2: Ethical Hacking

Instructions

Please answer the following questions.

1. What are the 4 focuses and benefits of footprinting?
2. What is the difference between passive footprinting and active footprinting?
3. Classify following activities into passive footprinting and active footprinting:
   Dumpster diving
   Social engineering
   DNS probe
   Phone calls to target company
   Browsing company’s website
4. What is Zone Transfer?
5. Find the following DNS record for nku.edu domain using host command.
   SOA, NS, MX, A
6. Usually what transport layer protocol does DNS name lookup and Zone transfer use  respectively? Use Wireshark to capture the any DNS name lookup data and show your
   screenshot here.
7. Whois is a command that can help you find info about a specific domain. Use whois to find out  domain registry info on a domain of your choice.
8. If you know the IP address of a server of a company, say, a WWW server, you can find out the  network range of the company at www.arin.net. If you enter the IP address, it will tell you the network range. Show the network range of a company of your choice. Note that the network  shown on the site may show the range owned by a cloud service if the server is hosted on cloud.