Step 3 – results
Based on the email address or addresses chosen, the software uses its big data analytics capabilities to exhaustively search the internet for any piece of information tied to the email address. Once it finds related items, it pulls them and stores them in its graphical database. It will grow the graph based on the information that it finds on the internet. The software will also keep updating the entity palette that is on the left side of the screen. It will add information such as aliases found and sensitive details such as the target's phone number. At the end of the search, the whitespace will be filled with related pieces of data regarding the target chosen.
The information collected by Maltego is quite useful in a social ...
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