Q & A: Google Hacking
Submitted by Robert Abela on March 12, 2010 – 3:22 pm4 Comments
Question and Answer on Help Net Security; Google Hacking with Robert Abela, Acunetix Technical Manager. In this intervie we discuss:
- The importance of Google for security research
- What kind of information about a target a penetration can find out by using Google
- Tips to those that want to use Google for Information gathering
- Advise to those that wish to protect themselves from leaking information via a search engine like Google
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This could be fixed if google impliments search filters. Or sensitive data encryption through crawling. This is a very old trick that hackers/Unsolicited users do to obtain sensitive data.
Well the problem is not Google but the way people abuse its capabilities. If Google capabilities are not abused, then it’s fine. Google without such capabilities wouldn’t be a great search engine, but another typical one.
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