Now, as we saw in the previous chapter how gathering information about the client will help us to launch attacks on victims, in this section, we are going to be using commands such as Whois, and tools such as Netcraft and Robtex to gather information from target systems.
Information gathering using tools
The Whois Lookup
The first thing we do before we start trying to exploit or find any vulnerabilities is information gathering. Therefore, we try to gather as much information as possible about the target, and web applications are no different. We're going to start by trying to get as much information as we can about the target IP address, the domain name info, the technology that is used on the website, which programming...
