Google Hacking: Ten Simple Security Searches That Work

With 1,000s of security related Google searches, this article shows the 10 that consistently return great results. It’s excerpted from the book “Google Hacking for Penetration Testers”.

The solutions included are:

• Site
• intitle:index.of
• error | warning
• login | logon
• username | userid | employee.ID | “your username is”
• password | passcode | “your password is”
• admin | administrator
• –ext:html –ext:htm –ext:shtml –ext:asp –ext:php
• inurl:temp | inurl:tmp | inurl:backup | inurl:bak
• intranet | help.desk
• List of Sites

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