Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Maltego overview

In this section, we'll look at a tool that we're going to be using often in this chapter. This tool is great for information gathering and it allows us to gather information about almost anything, we can gather information about people, websites, computers, companies, phone numbers, everything really; everything we can think of, we can add to this tool and try to extract information related to that entity. The tool is called Maltego, and it's going to become our best friend when it comes to information gathering. This tool can be used to gather information about anything, but using the tool is the same, so it doesn't matter whether our target is a website, a person, a phone number, or a company. Only the information that ...