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Creating usernames using Google and Linkedin
From: tadaka at gmail.com (Jason Wood)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:15:26 -0600
Robin, feel free to use it in CeWL or wherever else. Larry, I changed the script to take the number of results pages you want as an argument and put it on the site. Glad you guys liked it. :) Jason On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Larry Pesce <larry at pauldotcom.com> wrote:
Wow, this works like a freaking champ. Now to NOT throttle it to the first page of google results. :-) Jason, you can be sure I'll be adding this to my recon methodologies, whether this script, or though CEWL. Thanks! - L Jason Wood wrote:Hey all, I was messing with something today and remembered episode 129 had a segment on using a target company's website to generate passwords. I tried it out and with a bit tweaking it worked great. But I also wanted a username list that was targeted for the company. I took a twist on creating passwords and did some queries on Google such as "site:linkedin.com <http://linkedin.com> CompanyName". In my case, I found 26 pages of search results containing almost nothing but people's full names. I found a python script that pdp at gnucitizen had written to pull google search results. I did some hacking on it and came up with a script to create a list of usernames using the targeted search results. It creates the basic variations of first initial, last name and firstname, last initial. I'm not a python scripter, so if you have any suggestions on improvements please let me know. I've got it dialed down to only take the first page's results. You can download it at http://www.jwnetworkconsulting.com/downloads/usernameGen.txt The only real defense I can think of against this is to make sure usernames at your organization are not based on their names. I know from experience that people will absolutely HATE it, but it would work. Any how, hopefully this is useful to someone else. Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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