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Introduction to “Google Hacking”

Google hacking is a hacking technique that utilizes google search and another google services to find security holes or vulnerabilities on a site’s configuration and any information on it.

Google hacking can be done by using advanced operators in the Google search bar to locate specific strings of text within search results. Simply, any advanced operators provided by google can be used to help us to find a vulnurable sites.

Here’s an explanation of google hacking from wikipedia :
“Google hacking is a computer hacking technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites use. Continue Reading


Introduction to “Shodan”

You know search engine like Google, Yahoo or Bing right?

Shodan is like that. It is also a search engine. The difference between shodan and usual search-engine is the thing that searched. While google,yahoo or bing is good to search for websites, shodan is also a great search engine to find a specific computer (routers, servers, etc.) using various filters to put your searching into more specific.

Shodan lets you find servers or routers easily by using the search bar on its homepage. It can find what web are running what (example, web with ip 114.166.242.76 is running apache version 2.3.3)

Great search engine isn’t it? Continue Reading