Most of the time, they allow you to view a list of the most relevant and useful results. Advanced operators for querying GoogleĪdvanced operators allow you to get more specific search results from your queries. Besides revealing flaws in web applications, Google Hacking allows you to find sensitive data, useful for the Reconnaissance stage of an attack, such as emails associated with a site, database dumps or other files with usernames and passwords, unprotected directories with sensitive files, URLs to login portals, different types of system logs such as firewall and access logs, unprotected pages that contain sensitive information such as web-connected printers or cameras with data about their usage, status, location and so on.
Google Hacking is a term that encapsulates a wide range of techniques for querying Google to reveal vulnerable Web applications and sometimes to pinpoint vulnerabilities within specific web applications.
