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Creating usernames using Google and Linkedin
From: larry at pauldotcom.com (Larry Pesce)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:41:04 -0400
Jason, thanks! I was trying to figure that out, but of course, I'm doing about 12 things at once. Now to compare the code to see what you changed. :-) Works like a champ. Ran it using a few organization names that I know, and I'm definitely in agreement that the usernames match... - L Jason Wood wrote:
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 <mailto: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> <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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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