You can make your search more efficient by learning some search basics !
Try these tips :
1. Use Of '+' sign :
This ensures that the results returned to you will definatly consist of the word following the '+' sign. For Eg :
Search: reviews of +iPhone and iPod
This will show results containing the word reviews or iPod but the results will definatly consist of iPhone !
2. Use Of '-' sign :
Using '-' sign before any word will ensure that the particular word will not be included in the results !
3. Use Of '~' sign :
Using '~' before any word will return the results also containing the synonyms of the word !
4. Search a particular site :
To search a particular website you can use the following syntax in the google search :
Search: site:www.xyz.com abc
For Eg :
Search: site:http://pcremix.blogspot.com/ Google Search Tips
5. Define a word :
To get the definition of a word just use :
Search: define:abc
For Eg : Search: define:Computer
This will return you results which define 'Computer'.
6. Find Pages similar to a page :
To find a page similar i.e. consisting of same type of content, use the following syntax :
Search: related:http://www.xyz.com/
7. Search for exact phrase :
To search a set of words exactly together i.e.
For Eg :
Search: "contact us"
This will return the results containing both contact and us together !
8. Using the wild card '*' :
The * sign can be used in places where the whole word is not known.
For Eg:
Search: friend*
This will return the results containing friend , friends , friendship.
9. Using the '?' sign :
This is used when the full spelling of the word is not known.
For Eg:
Search: fri??d
This will result that in the results in which any alphabet can take the place of '?' sign.
10. Use of boolean operators :
The boolean operators like AND,OR,NOT can be used in search box to connect the words !
The search engine understands them as what they mean but the must be in capital letters !
For Eg:
Search: swim OR float
This will return the results containing either swim or float !
To find secret private home and business security cams, copy and paste one of the entire search string lines below into Google and click away...
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CGI script errors, potentially containing information about operating system and program versions, user names, filenames and file structure information
“#mysql dump” filetype:sql
MySQL database errors, potentially containing information about database structure and contents
“Generated by phpSystem”
operating system type and version, hardware configuration, logged users, open connections, free memory and disk space, mount points
“This summary was generated by wwwstat” web server statistics, system file structure
“These statistics were produced by getstats” web server statistics, system file structure
“This report was generated by WebLog” web server statistics, system file structure
intext:”Tobias Oetiker” “traffic analysis” system performance statistics as MRTG charts, network configuration
intitle:”Apache::Status” (inurl:server-status | inurl:status.html | inurl:apache.html) server version, operating system type, child process list, current connections
intitle:”ASP Stats Generator *.*” “ASP Stats Generator” “2003-2004 weppos” web server activity, lots of visitor information
intitle:”Multimon UPS status page” UPS device performance statistics
intitle:”statistics of” “advanced web statistics” web server statistics, visitor information
intitle:”System Statistics” +”System and Network Information Center”
system performance statistics as MRTG charts, hardware configuration, running services
intitle:”Usage Statistics for” “Generated by Webalizer” web server statistics, visitor information, system file structure
intitle:”Web Server Statistics for ****” web server statistics, visitor information
nurl:”/axs/ax-admin.pl” -script web server statistics, visitor information
inurl:”/cricket/grapher.cgi” MRTG charts of network interface performance
inurl:server-info “Apache Server Information” web server version and configuration, operating system type, system file structure
“Output produced by SysWatch *” operating system type and version, logged users, free memory and disk space, mount points, running processes, system logs
“Generated by phpSystem”
operating system type and version, hardware configuration, logged users, open connections, free memory and disk space, mount points
“This summary was generated by wwwstat” web server statistics, system file structure
“These statistics were produced by getstats” web server statistics, system file structure
“This report was generated by WebLog” web server statistics, system file structure
intext:”Tobias Oetiker” “traffic analysis” system performance statistics as MRTG charts, network configuration
intitle:”Apache::Status” (inurl:server-status | inurl:status.html | inurl:apache.html) server version, operating system type, child process list, current connections
intitle:”ASP Stats Generator *.*” “ASP Stats Generator” “2003-2004 weppos” web server activity, lots of visitor information
intitle:”Multimon UPS status page” UPS device performance statistics
intitle:”statistics of” “advanced web statistics” web server statistics, visitor information
intitle:”System Statistics” +”System and Network Information Center”
system performance statistics as MRTG charts, hardware configuration, running services
intitle:”Usage Statistics for” “Generated by Webalizer” web server statistics, visitor information, system file structure
intitle:”Web Server Statistics for ****” web server statistics, visitor information
nurl:”/axs/ax-admin.pl” -script web server statistics, visitor information
inurl:”/cricket/grapher.cgi” MRTG charts of network interface performance
inurl:server-info “Apache Server Information” web server version and configuration, operating system type, system file structure
“Output produced by SysWatch *” operating system type and version, logged users, free memory and disk space, mount points, running processes, system logs
Queries for discovering standard post-installation
intitle:”Test Page for Apache Installation” “You are free” Apache 1.2.6
intitle:”Test Page for Apache Installation” “It worked!” “this Web site!” Apache 1.3.0 – 1.3.9
intitle:”Test Page for Apache Installation” “Seeing this instead” Apache 1.3.11 – 1.3.33, 2.0
intitle:”Test Page for the SSL/TLS-aware Apache Installation” “Hey, it worked!” Apache SSL/TLS
intitle:”Test Page for the Apache Web Server on Red Hat Linux” Apache on Red Hat
intitle:”Test Page for the Apache Http Server on Fedora Core” Apache on Fedora
intitle:”Welcome to Your New Home Page!” Debian Apache on Debian
intitle:”Welcome to IIS 4.0!” IIS 4.0
intitle:”Welcome to Windows 2000 Internet Services” IIS 5.0
intitle:”Welcome to Windows XP Server Internet Services” IIS 6.0
“Apache/1.3.28 Server at” intitle:index.of Apache 1.3.28
“Apache/2.0 Server at” intitle:index.of Apache 2.0
“Apache/* Server at” intitle:index.of any version of Apache
“Microsoft-IIS/4.0 Server at” intitle:index.of Microsoft Internet Information Services 4.0
“Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Server at” intitle:index.of Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
“Microsoft-IIS/6.0 Server at” intitle:index.of Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
“Microsoft-IIS/* Server at” intitle:index.of any version of Microsoft Internet Information Services
“Oracle HTTP Server/* Server at” intitle:index.of
any version of Oracle HTTP Server
“IBM _ HTTP _ Server/* * Server at” intitle:index.of any version of IBM HTTP Server
“Netscape/* Server at” intitle:index.of any version of Netscape Server
“Red Hat Secure/*” intitle:index.of any version of the Red Hat Secure server
“HP Apache-based Web Server/*” intitle:index.of any version of the HP server
Google search engine can be used to hack into remote servers or gather confidential or sensitive information which are not visible through common searches.
Google is the world’s most popular and powerful search engine. It has the ability to accept pre-defined commands as inputs which then produces unbelievable results.
Google’s Advanced Search Query Syntax
Discussed below are various Google’s special commands and I shall be explaining each command in brief and will show how it can be used for getting confidential data.
[ intitle: ]
The “intitle:” syntax helps Google restrict the search results to pages containing that word in the title.
intitle: login password
will return links to those pages that has the word "login" in their title, and the word "password" anywhere in the page.
Similarly, if one has to query for more than one word in the page title then in that case “allintitle:” can be used instead of “intitle” to get the list of pages containing all those words in its title.
intitle: login intitle: password
is same as
allintitle: login password
[ inurl: ]
The “inurl:” syntax restricts the search results to those URLs containing the search keyword. For example: “inurl: passwd” (without quotes) will return only links to those pages that have "passwd" in the URL.
Similarly, if one has to query for more than one word in an URL then in that case “allinurl:” can be used instead of “inurl” to get the list of URLs containing all those search keywords in it.
allinurl: etc/passwd
will look for the URLs containing “etc” and “passwd”. The slash (“/”) between the words will be ignored by Google.
[ site: ]
The “site:” syntax restricts Google to query for certain keywords in a particular site or domain.
exploits site:hackingspirits.com
will look for the keyword “exploits” in those pages present in all the links of the domain “hackingspirits.com”. There should not be any space between “site:” and the “domain name”.
[ filetype: ]
This “filetype:” syntax restricts Google search for files on internet with particular extensions (i.e. doc, pdf or ppt etc).
filetype:doc site:gov confidential
will look for files with “.doc” extension in all government domains with “.gov” extension and containing the word “confidential” either in the pages or in the “.doc” file. i.e. the result will contain the links to all confidential word document files on the government sites.
[ link: ]
“link:” syntax will list down webpages that have links to the specified webpage.
link:www.expertsforge.com
will list webpages that have links pointing to the SecurityFocus homepage. Note there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page url.
[ related: ]
The “related:” will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified
web page.
related:www.expertsforge.com
will list web pages that are similar to the Securityfocus homepage. Note there can be no space between the "related:" and the web page url.
[ cache: ]
The query “cache:” will show the version of the web page that Google
has in its cache.
cache:www.hackingspirits.com
will show Google's cache of the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "cache:" and the web page url.
If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document.
cache:www.hackingspirits.com guest
will show the cached content with the word "guest" highlighted.
[ intext: ]
The “intext:” syntax searches for words in a particular website. It ignores links or URLs and page titles.
intext:exploits
will return only links to those web pages that has the search keyword "exploits" in its webpage.
[ phonebook: ]
“phonebook” searches for U.S. street address and phone number information.
phonebook:Lisa+CA
will list down all names of person having “Lisa” in their names and located in “California (CA)”. This can be used as a great tool for hackers incase someone want to do dig personal information for social engineering.
Google Hacks
Well, the Google’s query syntaxes discussed above can really help people to precise their search and get what they are exactly looking for.
Now Google being so intelligent search engine, hackers don’t mind exploiting its ability to dig much confidential and secret information from the net which they are not supposed to know. Now I shall discuss those techniques in details how hackers dig information from the net using Google and how that information can be used to break into remote servers.
Index Of
Using “Index of ” syntax to find sites enabled with Index browsing
A webserver with Index browsing enabled means anyone can browse the webserver directories like ordinary local directories. The use of “index of” syntax to get a list links to webserver which has got directory browsing enabled will be discussd below. This becomes an easy source for information gathering for a hacker. Imagine if the get hold of password files or others sensitive files which are not normally visible to the internet. Below given are few examples using which one can get access to many sensitive information much easily.
Index of /admin
Index of /passwd
Index of /password
Index of /mail
"Index of /" +passwd
"Index of /" +password.txt
"Index of /" +.htaccess
"Index of /secret"
"Index of /confidential"
"Index of /root"
"Index of /cgi-bin"
"Index of /credit-card"
"Index of /logs"
"Index of /config"
Looking for vulnerable sites or servers using “inurl:” or “allinurl:”
a. Using “allinurl:winnt/system32/” (without quotes) will list down all the links to the server which gives access to restricted directories like “system32” through web. If you are lucky enough then you might get access to the cmd.exe in the “system32” directory. Once you have the access to “cmd.exe” and is able to execute it.
b. Using “allinurl:wwwboard/passwd.txt”(without quotes) in the Google search will list down all the links to the server which are vulnerable to “WWWBoard Password vulnerability”. To know more about this vulnerability you can have a look at the following link:
c. Using “inurl:.bash_history” (without quotes) will list down all the links to the server which gives access to “.bash_history” file through web. This is a command history file. This file includes the list of command executed by the administrator, and sometimes includes sensitive information such as password typed in by the administrator. If this file is compromised and if contains the encrypted unix (or *nix) password then it can be easily cracked using “John The Ripper”.
d. Using “inurl:config.txt” (without quotes) will list down all the links to the servers which gives access to “config.txt” file through web. This file contains sensitive information, including the hash value of the administrative password and database authentication credentials.
For Example: Ingenium Learning Management System is a Web-based application for Windows based systems developed by Click2learn, Inc. Ingenium Learning Management System versions 5.1 and 6.1 stores sensitive information insecurely in the config.txt file. For more information refer the following
links: http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/6M00H2K5PG.html
Other similar search using “inurl:” or “allinurl:” combined with other syntax
inurl:gov filetype:xls "restricted"
index of ftp +.mdb allinurl:/cgi-bin/ +mailto
Looking for vulnerable sites or servers using “intitle:” or “allintitle:”
a. Using [allintitle: "index of /root”] (without brackets) will list down the links to the web server which gives access to restricted directories like “root” through web. This directory sometimes contains sensitive information which can be easily retrieved through simple web requests.
b. Using [allintitle: "index of /admin”] (without brackets) will list down the links to the websites which has got index browsing enabled for restricted directories like “admin” through web. Most of the web application sometimes uses names like “admin” to store admin credentials in it. This directory sometimes contains sensitive information which can be easily retrieved through simple web requests.
Other similar search using “intitle:” or “allintitle:” combined with other syntax
