Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition
by Vijay Kumar Velu, Robert Beggs
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What is deleted from the internet is not necessarily deleted from Google. Every page that is visited by Google is backed up as a snapshot in Google's cache servers. Typically, it is intended to see whether Google can serve you the best available page based on your search query. The same can be utilized to gather information about our target. For example, say a hacked database's details were posted in sampledatadumpwebsite.com, and that website or the link is taken off the internet. If the page is accessed by Google, this information serves the attackers a lot of information such as usernames, password hashes, what type of backend was being utilized, and other relevant technological and policy information. The following link is ...
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