[Myexperiment-discuss] Maltego

[Carole Goble]

I was pointed to this:

Maltego http://www.paterva.com/

Thanks to Rhod Davies for the info

They are about to release a new version (and I think move to a 
commercial footing). The tool is a framework for data mining. It has 
concepts of things like people, web sites, IP addresses, domain names. 
You can download "transforms" that allow you to relate one of these 
concepts to another and built up a graph of relationships.

Some penetration testers my pal Rhod knows use this in the 
reconnaissance phase to find out more about their targets. Some of the 
plug ins go back to search engines and a couple of them try to follow 
social networking sites - possibly via an aggregator search engine 
(http://www.rapleaf.com/). Some of the transforms are a bit flaky but it 
still produces useful information.




Carole