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# Social Media

### 1.3. Social Media

Social media is useful in the following ways:

* Learn about corporate culture, hierarchies, business processes, technologies, application
* To build a network map of people
* Select the most appropriate target for a social engineering attack

In the previous phase you should have already compiled a list of managers, employees, etc. What we have to do now is gather information on every person on this list and build the relationship among them in a company.

Tools:

* Linkedin\
   On linkedin, you can perform advanced search functions on people based upon: current title, position, location, company and so on.
* [pipl](https://github.com/zer0byte/ecppt-notes/blob/master/ECPPT/network-security/www.pipl.com)
* [spokeo](http://www.spokeo.com/)
* [peoplefinders](http://www.peoplefinders.com/)
* [CrunchBase](http://www.crunchbase.com/)
* Twitter
* Facebook
* Usenet\
   Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system. It consists of a set of newsgroup with names that are classified hierarchically by subject. We can also find additional information by searching for individual's name or email in Google groups.