Googling for Hackable Sites


	Googling for Hackable Sites

Andy Greenberg

2-25-2008 2:38 PM

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google, hacking, google hacking, cult of the dead cow

Andy Greenberg says:

Google Hacking is an old trick made popular by the well-known penetration tester Johnny Long. But this is an interesting way to make those techniques more accessible to Web developers. Wonder what Google thinks about all of this...

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                        San Francisco - The hacking group <SPAN id="lw_1203714927_0" class="yshortcuts">Cult of the Dead Cow</SPAN> (<SPAN id="lw_1203714927_1" class="yshortcuts">CDC</SPAN>) this week released a tool that turns <SPAN id="lw_1203714927_2" class="yshortcuts">Google</SPAN> into an automated vulnerability scanner, scouring Web sites for sensitive information such as passwords or server vulnerabilities.                        
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