Ethical Hacking: Techniques, Tools, and Countermeasures, 4th Edition
by Michael G. Solomon, Sean-Philip Oriyano
Google Hacking
The SEC’s EDGAR service and other information sources listed in the previous section represent simple but powerful tools that can be used to gain information about a target. Attackers know that to discover new victims, they must apply many tools in often unintended and new ways to gain information. One such tool that can be used in nefarious ways is the Google Internet search engine.
Google contains a tremendous amount of information of all types just waiting to be searched and discovered. In the process known as Google hacking, the goal is to locate useful information by using techniques already provided by the search engine, but by applying them in new ways. By developing properly constructed queries, hackers can generate Google ...
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