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______________ is the first phase of ethical hacking. (a) DNS poisoning (b) Footprinting (c) ARP-poisoning (d) Enumeration This question was addressed to me in an online quiz. Asked question is from Enumerating in Cyber Security in section Cyber Security of Cyber Security Select the correct answer from above options Cyber Security questions and answers, Cyber Security questions pdf, Cyber Security question bank, Cyber Security questions and answers pdf, mcq on Cyber Security pdf,

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Correct answer is (b) Footprinting Explanation: Footprinting is the first phase of Ethical Hacking where a gathering of information is done for the process of hacking or attacking any victim or system. Here that attacker tries to discover as much attack vectors as possible. Footprinting is also known as Reconnaissance.