Full Disclosure: Re: Any thoughts on War-Googling?

["Fabio Weissert" <fabio_weissert () hotmail com>]

related: http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/224


Rgds,


-F



> Hi
>
> Well, I think there is some filtering from the search engines maintainers,
> that's why it isn't as known and successful as it could be. You can use
> different search engines who support boolean logic (most search engines
> will), like
>
> www.teoma.com   www.wisenut.com www.google.com
>
> and search for different path's or filenames, like
>
> C:\winnt                                WinNT/2K Default-Directory
> C:\inetpub                      IIS Default-Directory
> TSWeb/default.htm               Win2K Terminal Services
> url:.htaccess                   HTA-Access-File
> url:.htpasswd                   Password-File
> url:etc AND link:passwd Password-File
>
> And Google supports another special trick:
>
> filetype:XLS/DOC                searching for Documents
>
> And now apply this for Scripting Paths, CGIs, Executables
> and all that you can find on target servers ;-)
>
> GreetZ from IndianZ
>
> mailto:indianz () indianz ch
> http://www.indianz.ch
>
>
>
> On Sunday 18 April 2004 21.42, Aschwin Wesselius wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there anybody who is common with the technique described in this
> > article?
> >
> > http://www.ebcvg.com/articles.php?id=207
> >
> > It says something about using Google to target servers by searching
> > paths to vulnerabilities.
> >
> > Any thoughts on that?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Aschwin Wesselius
> >
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