A simple explanation of google dorks, it's uses and collection of best google dorks to get the best and desired information.
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8. How to safeguard informaion from Google Dorks
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Google Dorks, is also known as Google dorking or Google hacking.It is hacking technique which is used to find the best desired search results without wasting time in exploring google for required information. Normally, google dorks is used by researchers or hackers to find critical information about a company, individual, a software or app, a research topic or anything else. But a normal person can also use google dorks in many places and can save time and will definetely get better information.
As you all know, google crawls almost all websites and index almost everything available on that website including some sensitive information. That simply means google exposes too much information about websites including the technologies used, username, passwords, and some other general vulnerabilities.
By using some simple techniques which we call google dorks, we can just exploring that sensitive inforamion. Apart from this, by using google dorks, we can also helps google to understand more about what search results we are expecting from google.
Everyone uses google dorks for a differnet purpose. Below are some of the most common reasons for using google dorks -
- cybersecurity experts uses google dorks to find critical inforamion which get exposed by someone knowingly or unknowingly.But later it can Delted or Hidden that so that no one uses it for any wrong purpose.
- researcher, content writers, journalists ,etc uses google dorks to gather all the inforamion available on google about a particular topic so that they can use that inforamion for reaching their own goals.
- students mainly uses google dorks to find answers to their questions which mayb be from textbook or asked the staff or for finding leaked version of a course or a book in free.
- comapnies and their employes uses google dorks to gather inforamion about their competitors and for finding honest reveiws of thier products or services so that they can use that inforamion further for improving their products and services and which in results helps their company grow faster.
Google dorks can be used to find a variety of inforamion in many aspects but it mainly used to find the inforamion described below -
- critical information of a website, company, organization, softwares
- blogs, articles, research papers, etc on a particular topic
- leaked courses and ebooks
- reviews about a company, it's product and about it's services
- finding solutions of answers of textbook questions
Apart from these, their exist many other kind of information which can be find via google dorks very easily.
Let's learn this by an example. While searching for any free ebook , once add filetype:pdf in your google search box along with book name and in results google will only shows you only those search results which have a pdf with same name as you typed in searchbox. For a better understanding, once try this by your own.
Also for the betterment of our users, we have shown examples of what and how you should type search query in google.
| Google Dork | Used for | Example | |
|---|---|---|---|
| "specified_phrase or statement" | shows only those pages that contains exact word or statemetn | "Is hacking illegal" | |
| site: | removes search resuls from all other websites except the mentioned one | site:amazon.com smartwatches | |
| inurl:specified_phrase | shows only those search results which contins the specified word in url | inurl:ethical hacking | |
| inurl:word1 word2 | shows search results that contain either of the word or both | inurl:hacking programming | |
| allinurl:word1 word2 | shows the search results that contain both of the words | allinurl:hacking programming | |
| intitle:word1 word2 | shows those search results that mention word in their title and mention the word “word” anywhere in the document | intitle:hacking networking | |
| cache: | shows the website homepage even if website is down | cache:netflix.com | |
| intext:word1 | shows only those pages containing that specific word (or words) somewhere in the context | intext:bug hunting | |
| allintext:word1 word2 | only shows pages containing those words somewhere in the context | allintext:hacking networking | |
| intitle:”index of” | shows open ftp servers | intitle:”index of spiderman movie” | |
| inurl:view/index.shtml | shows live cameras that don’t have any protection | inurl:view/index.shtml | |
| filetype:pdf/doc/ppt specified_phrase | shows only pages that contains the document of that type and contains specified word in file name | filetype:pdf ethical hacking | |
| + | shows only those pages that must contain that specific word | ethical hacninng + free course | |
| - | avoid showing results that contain certain words | ethical hacking - paid course |
| Google Dork | Used for | |
|---|---|---|
| intitle:”index of” | shows open ftp servers | |
| cache: | shows the website homepage even if website is down | |
| inurl:view/index.shtml | shows live cameras that don’t have any protection | |
| login: passwordfiletype:xls | shows password list of some random websites | |
| allintext:username filetype:log | shows log files of random websites | |
| inurl:/proc/self/cwd | used to detect vulnerable or hacked servers | |
| intitle:"index of" inurl:ftp | shows open ftp servers | |
| filetype:xls inurl:"email.xls" | used to find database of emails | |
| intitle:"Index of" wp-admin | used to find wordpress login page of random websites |
If you want to know about some more google dorks used in cybersecurty, then we suggest you to explore Google Hacking Database.
https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database
You can take the following safety measures to protect your information from being disclosed by google dorks -
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Protect pages that contains sensitive information via username and password.
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Run regular dork queries against your website to discover the sensitive information.
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Request removal of sensitive inforamion if found via google search console
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9689846?hl=en&visit_id=637871614748203924-38706967&rd=1
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Block sensitive content by using a robots.txt file located in your root-level website directory.
anything that you type and search for in google is called google search query.
Absolutely yes , you can use n number of google dorks in a single google search.
Yes, their exist dorks for yahoo,bing,github and many other platforms too.
You can try but as we know every search engine has its own unique algorithm and shows results according to that, so it is better to use dorks made espcially for that platform.
NO, using google dork is legal but misusing the information gathered by google dorks for wrong purpose or for bad intentions is illegal.
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