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Google hacking or dorking for OSINT

Google hacking or dorking for OSINT

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Google hacking or dorking for OSINT

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- The information security term Google Dorking or Google Hacking, has been around for a while and involves using advanced operators in search engines such as Google, to find specific OSINT information. One of my favorite examples of Google Hacking is using the search operator's site and filetype, followed by a colon and then the URL and file extension. Say you wanted to locate all the PDF or Microsoft Word documents indexed on the target's website. The Google search would look something like this. site:linkedin.com.filetype.PDF or, site:linkedin.com.filetype:docx. There are many websites such as the Google Hacking database, that provide an index of search queries used to find publicly available information. You'll find queries that will return things like files containing usernames, sensitive directories, and vulnerable files. And some of the queries listed on the Google Hacking Database truly are masterpieces. For those…

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