How to Use SpiderFoot for OSINT Gathering

During a penetration test, one of the most important aspects of engaging a target is information gathering. The more information you have coming into an attack, the more likely the attack is to succeed. In this article, I'll be looking at SpiderFoot, a modular cross-platform OSINT (open-source intelligence) gathering tool. Open-source intelligence is data that can be gathered from public sources. OSINT isn't just limited to the internet, it can be gathered through print media, government records, academic publications, and more. Depending on your target, gathering publicly available data from... more

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