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Doxing is a way of tracing someone or getting information about an individual using sources on the internet and social engineering techniques. It's term was derived from --Documents-- as a matter of fact its the retrieval of Documents on a person or an organization.
Definiton of Doxing:
Doxing is derived from Document Tracing. Doxing is tracing the information from internet resources about particular person.
Usually internet users leave their information (lik e gender, name..) in some websites (like social network). So using some searching Techniques, we can gather complete data about a person. This type of searching is known as Doxing. This data can be used to hack their account or trace them.
What you can find using Doxing?
Real Name, age,gender
Email id, registered websites, Social Network accounts,
Address, Phone Number
Parent's Names and their Jobs, Place of Education (School/ University etc.)
Relatives and more data.
From where you are going to start?
Yes, if you know person realname, then start from his name. If you know the username then start from there. or if you know any other data, start from there Using name or username , search for other information in google.
How to do Doxing?
Just assume you want to gather information about someone. Let us assume his username is yzyzyzy. If you search in google for "yzyzyzy" , you will get thousands results about yzyzyz. So what you are going to do? You have to have some other information about shehab from somewhere. For example, You got his birthday. Now you can continue your searching with "yzyzyzy xx/xx/xxx". This will reduce the resutls.
Not only birthday, you can use some other info like signature. For example if he put signature in a forum as "kill code". You can continue searching using"yzyzyzy kill code". This will reduce the Results.
Sometime your target person registered in multiple forums, websites, social networks... So while searching, you will get result of registered website of him using that username or info.
Read Each posts of target person, he might have left some more information about him any one of forums or websites.
Using Email Address for Tracing:
If you got the email address of target person, it is much easier to trace the person. You can search using in the following sites. you may get some data.
Websites that will be useful for Doxing:
myspace.com/
bebo.com/
facebook.com /
google.com/
pipl.com/
wink.com/
123people.com/
zabasearch.com/
...
If the above sites dont give u any results try these 2 methods below.
It is great if the person uses paypal for online transactions. (In this case Liberty Reserve and Bitcoin are useless)
Login to ur paypal, and transfer a very little amount of money from ur account to the other person's account. While the transfer is in place, you will be able to view all his info. But beaware that he can also view ur complete info.
If your target owns a website. A website not a blog. You can do a who is search on the domain and you will have the details.
Telephone Number and address:
By now u should have been able to find the victims Real Name. Now go to an online white page or telephone directory and search for the name. You will get a lot of results but you need to analyze the results and find out the exact user.
Doxing needs Intelligence and searching ability. You have to guess where to search and what to search about person.
Depending on searching ability, you will get what you required.
Security Question:
A Hacker can get the victim's security question answer using doxing.
For example, if your questions is "What is your pet?", he may guess. He will search with email or username . you may have left somewhere on the internet my pet is xxx. So now you are the victim.
Dictionary Attack:
Hackers can gather information about the victim and create a dictionary file (wordlist) for a target person alone. Using that dictionary file , he can crack your passwords.
Conclusion:
Doxing is one hell of a powerful hacking method but it requires a lot of patience and searching ability.
Security Tips of Users:
Don't use Internet. This is best security tip because your data can be traced by anyone. sounds crazy?! No one like to leave the Internet. So i am giving some other tips for you.
1. Becareful when you give information in internet.
2. Use very Strong passwords .
3. Don't set Stupid security Question for account.
4. Limit ur personal info to your frnds only.
5. Use strict options in privacy.
Avoid opening links sent by unknown people
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