Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

Work smarter with the Google hacking DB and Netcraft

Google search skills will always be useful, but a lot of the most useful strings for hackers are captured in the Google hacking database (also known as The Exploit DB), a project hosted by the Offensive Security folks (https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database/). While it is fun to browse, the best use of it is to seed your search queries, combining the strings they have catalogued with your own modifiers from the previous section.

The bulk of their categories are useful for web penetration testing, but I would start with the Web Server Detection queries:

The Google Hacking DB is ...