Powerful Tool to Scour Document Metadata Updated
A Spanish company has released an upgraded version of a powerful software application that can be used to perform intelligence gathering on a company's Web site and network.
The application, called FOCA (Fingerprinting Organizations with Collected Archives), will download all documents that have been posted on a Web site and extract the metadata, or the information generated about the document itself. It often reveals who created the document, e-mail address, internal IP (Internet Protocol) addresses and much more.
It's possible to see the number of computers in an office, which ones are connected to printers and get a good idea for how a network is structured. FOCA is currently being used by government security agencies, penetration testers and even hackers, said Chema Alonso, a security researcher with Informatica64, a Spanish consultancy.
