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Google hacking

How it is useful in Ethical Hacking feild?

Hacker or Penetration tester uses Google search tricks called Google hacking tricks to gather information about the target by open web. How to hack Google, if you want to hack Google use Google Hacking Database. Google Hacking is an Open Web Information Gathering Technique.

What is Google Hacking?

Google hacking, also named Google dorking, is a hacker technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites use.

Google hacking involves using advanced operators in the Google search engine to locate specific strings of text within search results. Some of the more popular examples are finding specific versions of vulnerable Web applications.

Example- 

• A search query with intitle:admbook intitle:Fversion filetype:php would locate all web pages that have that particular text contained within them.
• A search string such as inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode=" will find public web cameras.
• intitle:index.of mp3 will give all the MP3 files available on various types of servers.

intitle            Search page Title

allintitle       Search page title

inurl       Search URL

allinurl       Search URL

filetype/ext   Specific files

intext       Search text of page only

allintext       Search text of page only

site              Search specific site

link               Search for links to pages

inanchor      Search link anchor text

numrange     Locate number

daterange     Search in date range

author       Group author search

group       Group name search

insubject       Group subject search

msgid        Group msgid search

Prevention-

Detection of sensitive data appearing in a web search includes periodically checking Google to see whether information has leaked. Available tools with just that task in mind may be found on the Internet, such as GooScan and the Goolag Scanner.

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