Google Hacking for Penetration Testers

by Johnny Long, Bill Gardner, Justin Brown

Google is the most popular search engine ever created, but Google’s search capabilities are so powerful, they sometimes discover content that no one ever intended to be publicly available on the Web, including social security numbers, credit card numbers, trade secrets, and federally classified documents. Google Hacking for Penetration Testers, Third Edition, shows you how security professionals and system administratord manipulate Google to find this sensitive information and "self-police" their own organizations. You will learn how Google Maps and Google Earth provide pinpoint military accuracy, see how bad guys can manipulate Google to create super worms, and see how they can "mash up" Google with Facebook, LinkedIn, and more for passive reconnaissance. This third edition includes completely updated content throughout and all new hacks such as Google scripting and using Google hacking with other search engines and APIs. Noted author Johnny Long, founder of Hackers for Charity, gives you all the tools you need to conduct the ultimate open source reconnaissance and penetration testing.

Genres: Hackers, Technology

234 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2015

About the author

Johnny Long is a Christian by grace, a professional hacker by trade, a pirate by blood, a ninja in training, a security researcher and author. He can be found lurking at his website (http://johnny.ihackstuff.com). He is the founder of Hackers For Charity(http://ihackcharities.org), an organization that provides hackers with job experience while leveraging their skills for charities that need those skills.

Reviews

[Chris Patterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has great pointers on ways to think about using Google differently. If you're not familiar with the advanced technical searches possible through the Google interface, this book will likely be an eye opener. Having used Google before it was popular and having learned most of the advanced search features as they were introduced, this book provided insight into merging some of the techniques I already knew to various situations, where in the past I might have written my own program before to perform the same task. Definitely a time saver. Though it says it's for Penetration Testers, it's really for anyone who has a website or information about themselves that exists on the Internet. Excellent read, and the authors provide nice chapter summaries, so it reads considerably better than most textbooks. Could probably be read in an afternoon.