The document discusses how footprinting involves gathering information about a targeted network and its assets before launching an attack. It notes that companies use cookies and XML hooks to track users across devices. While meant for marketing, these footprinting methods have been exploited by cybercriminals to gather private data. The document asks the reader to research footprinting methodologies and discuss how cybersecurity experts can ensure footprinting is used legitimately by businesses instead of criminals.

1. A
While there are several ways of gathering information on a
potential victim, information ciphering is a commonly used
method implemented by cybersecurity criminals via an activity
known as 'footprinting.' Footprinting involves gathering as
much information as one can about a targeted network and its
assets before launching an attack. Companies today use cookies
and XML hooks in order to attach themselves to the surfing
routine of unsuspecting users. This type of footprinting can
traverse multiple personal and business devices, as many
devices now use common authentication infrastructures, which
inherently allow for a single individual or business to be
followed, regardless of the devices that they use. This type of
footprinting, while meant to benefit the marketing efforts of
legit businesses, has been exploited by cybersecurity criminals.
Research footprinting and discuss methodologies that can be
employed by cybersecurity experts to ensure that footprinting
mechanics, such as those aforementioned, can be used
legitimately by businesses, instead of being hijacked by cyber
criminals looking to tail personal or business private data
streams.
B
Social engineering infrastructures can consist of several logical
layers of communication. Some of the components within each
layer may or may not include handlers. That is to say that there
are certain aspects of social engineering infrastructures that are
handled by manual labor, which consists of people watching and
responding to the responses of others on a given social media

2. network. Other components consists of bots, which feed
responses to users in the form of both true and false
information. The combination of the two component resources
have led to inconsistency in social media technology
infrastructures, as bots and humans compete for communication
distribution space. This has led to a myriad of cybersecurity
issues as bots and humans alike penetrate the information,
endangering the general privacy of those participating on social
media networks. Describe a strategy for dealing with such a
severe issue and discuss the security methodologies you would
deploy to amend the current issues surrounding social network
data vulnerability.