
Database Dumps
The output of a database into any format can be constituted as a database dump.
For the purposes of Google hacking, however, we’ll us the term database dump to
describe the text-based conversion of a database. As we’ll see next in this chapter,
it’s entirely possible for an attacker to locate just about any type of binary
database file, but standardized formats (such as the text-based SQL dump shown
in Figure 10.10) are very commonplace on the Internet.
Using a full database dump, a database administrator can completely rebuild a
database.This means that a full dump details not only the structure of the
database’s tables but also ever