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The recognised ethical-hacking methodology, phase by phase, from footprinting to covering tracks.
People who want the well-known EC-Council credential and a structured tour of the whole attacker toolkit.
125 questions · 4 hours · multiple-choice · passing score varies by form (~60–85%)
Three tasters — the real track has hundreds, graded, with full rationale.
B. You cannot attack what you have not mapped. Reconnaissance/footprinting — gathering information about the target — is always the first phase.
B. Passive recon uses third-party and public sources (whois, search engines, DNS records) so the target never sees you looking. Active recon touches the target directly.
B. Nmap is the standard port/service scanner. Wireshark captures traffic, John cracks passwords, Burp tests web apps.
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