Bulletproof your organization against Google hacking: Assess your vulnerability to these ten simple security searches

Today, Google's advanced search capabilities are being used on an increasing basis by unscrupulous individuals to harvest information from the Web. Sensitive documents, stolen credit card information, even servers behind corporate firewalls can be found using Google searches. Security practitioners interested in designing and developing effective protective strategies, therefore, must learn to explore the dark side of Googling. Reverse-engineer the techniques of malicious "Google hackers" in order to protect your company's servers from this often overlooked and dangerous form of information leakage. Start your security assessment of a particular target site by investigating ten killer Google searches in this sample chapter from Google Hacking for Penetration Testers.

Title: Google Hacking for Penetration Testers
ISBN: 1931836361
Published: December 2004
Authors: Ido Johnny Long, Ed Skoudis, Alrik van Eijkelenborg
Chapter: Chapter 7: Ten Simple Security Searches That Work
Published by Syngress Publishing