John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned a project to test the security local disk and obtains all the files on the Web site. Which of the following techniques is he using…

The correct answer is C. Web ripping. Web ripping (also called website ripping or website copying) is the technique of mirroring or downloading an entire website-including all its pages, images, scripts, and other files-to a local disk. Ethical hackers use web ripping tools to analyze a site's structure and content…

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John works as a professional Ethical Hacker. He has been assigned a project to test the security local disk and obtains all the files on the Web site. Which of the following techniques is he using to accomplish his task?

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AEavesdropping
BFingerprinting
CWeb ripping
DTCP FTP proxy scanning

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Explanation

Web ripping (also called website ripping or website copying) is the technique of mirroring or downloading an entire website-including all its pages, images, scripts, and other files-to a local disk. Ethical hackers use web ripping tools to analyze a site's structure and content offline. Eavesdropping involves intercepting network traffic passively; Fingerprinting identifies OS and service versions on a target system; TCP FTP proxy scanning (FTP bounce attack) exploits FTP servers to scan other hosts. Web ripping is the only technique that specifically captures all files from a website to local storage, matching John's described task.

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