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Re: Website search engine is a hacking tool..


From: Wojciech Pawlikowski <ducer () u-n-f com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:35:51 +0200

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 08:06:21AM +0400, Amal Mohammad Al Hajeri wrote:
Hi List,

Did you ever thought of the website search engine as a hacking tool?
During one of the pen-tests, The website search engine, was a valuable
tool to discover interesting directories within the website itself,
these directories were not detected by famous website scanners like
nikto or SPI dynamics,i managed to get documentation pages about the API
application implemented, management login pages, backup files and much
more.
I leave it to your imagination to search for words like:
password,login,oracle,database,administrator, backup...etc

It's nuffin new, if you want to be a good google hacker you should start
from reading http://neworder.box.sk/newsread_print.php?newsid=8203
and than try to browse http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews

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