Google Hacking .IE February 23rd, 2008

Considering this week the Irish government have been pushing is “Make IT Secure” (I wonder how much and how long that took to come up with), I decided to put out something on one of my interests, Google Hacking (g.H.). Google hacking is simply the construction of a search to find information that is available to the public that really should not be, or that provides information about software products running on sites that may pose a security threat to the integrity of the site. It is not limited to the use of the Google search engine as almost any major search engine can be used to find this content. It is legal to run such queries so long as you do not posses the intention to use that information in the furtherance of a crime, however it may be against the site owners terms of service to access such information. It is against all major search engine vendor terms of service to automate such searches. It is also quite stupid to leave this information available to the public.

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