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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook
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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

by Paulino Calderon
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
318 pages
6h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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Discovering valid e-mail accounts using Google Search

Finding valid e-mail accounts is an important task during a penetration test. E-mail accounts are often used as usernames in some systems and web applications. Attackers often target the highly sensitive information that is stored in them.

This recipe shows you how to use Nmap to discover valid e-mail accounts that could be used as usernames in some web applications or during brute force password auditing, to find weak credentials.

Getting ready

For this task we need an NSE script that is not distributed with Nmap officially. Download the NSE script http-google-search.nse from http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2011/q3/att-401/http-google-email.nse.

Update your NSE script database by executing the following ...

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