Re: An example of DNS forensics

[Daniel Uriah Clemens <superman () packetninjas org>]

+++ Richard M. Smith [26/10/05 10:29 -0400]:
->http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/technology/26google.html?pagewanted=print
-> 
->Google Found to Be Testing Classified Ads 
->
->By JOHN MARKOFF 
->
->SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25 - An online classified service being tested by Google
->set off intense speculation on Tuesday after a Web site for the service was
->accidentally made public and discovered by a computer programmer on Monday.
->
->The service, which was named Google Base and was for a time accessible at
->base.google.com, described itself as "Google's database into which you can
->add all types of content."
->

I guess this is a good find, or simply a bad security practice made by google.

->
->The Google Base page was discovered on Monday by Tony Ruscoe, a British
->programmer, who said he had created an automatic program to search for
->subdomains accessible at the Google.com Web site. The company, based in
->Mountain View, Calif., took down the test site and replaced the page with a
->"403" forbidden-access response.
->

I guess the author being John Markoff kindoff hits a few trigger points.
Its just like John to over sexualize the use of a dns scanner.

Just one off the top of my head - 
http://packetstormsecurity.org/UNIX/scanners/blindcrawl.pl


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