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BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
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BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

by Shakeel Ali, Tedi Heriyanto
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
8h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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All-in-one intelligence gathering

In the previous sections, we describe several tools that can be used to gather information. The drawback of using separate tools is that we need to consolidate all of our findings. Luckily there is another tool that can be used as an all-in-one intelligence gathering.

Maltego

Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application. It allows you to mine and gather information, and represent the information in a meaningful way. The word "open source" in Maltego means that it gathers information from the open source resources; it does not mean that Maltego is open source software.

Maltego allows you to enumerate Internet infrastructure information, such as:

  • Domain names
  • DNS names
  • Whois information
  • Network blocks ...
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ISBN: 9781849513944