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Hacking personal information

In information gathering, we looked at a number of ways to get personal information using Google. We even gave a few examples of how the search queries work. We will lightly go over this, as it is important to mention it here. Let us look at some of the commands that can be issued to Google to give us personal information about targets:

John Doe Intitle:"Resume" "phone" "email *"

This search command will give us results that have Doe's resume, phone, and email. The results will be pulled from personal websites, job boards or corporates that have kept this information. So as to get the whole CV, we can just give the following command to Google:

John Doe intitle:"curriculum vitae" filetype:pdf

Here, the results ...