Comments on: Goolag - GUI Tool for Google Hacking

By: Johnny Crow

Johnny Crow — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:44:51 +0000

I have used google since the day it came out and have always looked at ways to search beyond normal operators. I remember when Ihackstuff came out because I had written a white paper on google “hacking” in order to get a job. I found that they tended to know more than I did, but then again I didn’t spend much time on it. I always wondered if someone would create an app that could take an input and have it do the search strings, much easier than doing it by hand. I wrote a small macro that helped out with certain ones, but mostly it was just a pain to do it all by hand.

I am very fond of goolag and am proud that the cDc came out with another tool for those who need it to use.

-J

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:07:52 +0000

Nice one.
Used to search for dorks but became somewhat boring after seeing webcam number X with either a dumb ass view or non working. You’d be amazed what turns up looking for office related files.

By: Darknet

Darknet — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:20:51 +0000

Google Dorks are search engine queries that return either a) Off limit resources (web cams etc) or b) Exploitable resources (Software vulnerable to SQL injection for example) or c) Private info like passwords and juicy info Google has many advanced operators which can be used to narrow down this search, if you read Full Disclosure or Bugtraq you'll often find the vulnerabilities for web apps are accompanied by Google Dorks to help you find the vulnerable apps on the public web. I suggest you follow the I Hack Stuff link and check out the site.

By: zupakomputer

zupakomputer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:01:22 +0000

Pardon me ignorance squire but - what the hell is that exactly? I haven’t heard of ‘dorks’ in this context, and the cDc page is more about political thought against China and Google allowing their search engine to be used there, but censoring it -

how does it fit in with the scanner function, and finding cameras?

At any rate - Google is censored here too; first the .com site turned up nothing but spam links, hence only the .co.uk search works at all now (in fact, if I type in the .com thesedays it entirely redirects to the .co.uk and is no longer accessible from the UK at all - this trend has been the case with a number of other major sites that have UK & US (and other) versions - it becomes impossible to get onto the site for a country other than your own (eg - another one that does that is Game Spot)).

Frequently I find that Google will leave out searches that it previously returned on page1 (fom the same uplink and machine) ; in each case thus far when that happens I’ve been able to find the link again, on page1 on a different search engine.
Also, as worryingly, I happen to have net access from two very disctinct links, that are very close in physical location - the same search on Google on the same day yields very different results from the ultra-fast comms line than it doth from the phone line.

By: James C

James C — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:41:42 +0000

Nice tool. Its good fun dorking for camera’s, its amazing what you can find Once I found a camera monitoring a control panel in a water or sewerage plant (hard to tell the difference from the control panel)

By: Shill

Shill — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:09:14 +0000

Too bad there’s to be developed for win32