GOOGLE DORKING.

Assignment Description Loyal Consulting Services (LCS) provides security consulting and services to over 300 clients across a wide range of enterprises in Australia. A new initiative at LCS is for its two offices in Sydney and Melbourne to provide internships to students who are pursuing their postgraduate studies in reputed institutes in Sydney and Melbourne in the Networking domain. To evaluate suitable candidates for this prestigious internship program, RCS has asked applicants to prepare a detailed report and a presentation addressing the following sections: A. Google Dorking (maximum 600 Words) Google Dorking, or using advanced Google search techniques to find sensitive information, has been linked to “online dumpster diving.” Use Library/Internet resources to research Google dorking. Based on your research address following: 1. How the following advanced Google search engine operators are used: allintext, allintitle, allinurl, cache, filetype, inanchor, intest, intitle, link, si

GOOGLE
DORKING

What is Google dorking?
 Google dorking or hacking is a type of
technique where information regarding a
particular subject or company can be
retrieved from the internet with the help
of a set of advanced operators that can
search over the entire world wide web to
retrieve specific parts of information [1].
 Google dorking is very easy to use and
can be used as a potential hacking tool by
anyone. Some SQL injection hacking tool
like “Havji” can be used by anyone to
easily retrieve data from websites about
other companies.
 More than 35000 companies were
affected by google dorking in 2013 in the
United States of America.

Operators in Google dorking
Examples of operators used in google dorking
[2]:
 Allintext: searches for a specific text on web
pages
 Allinurl: fetches exact matching URL as the
searched text
 Allintitle: same as allintext but returns the title
of the web pages
 +: used to concatenate or join many specific
keys to detect web pages
 |: acts as a logical operator while searching
 *: used to search words with anything before the
given word
 Cache: used to show cached version of the
websites

References
 [1] F Toffalini, M Abbà, D Carra, and D
Balzarotti, Google dorks: Analysis,
creation, and new defenses.
In International Conference on Detection
of Intrusions and Malware, and
Vulnerability Assessment (pp. 255-275).
Springer, Cham. July 2016.
 [2] M.Y Bae, H.K Lim, and D.J Cho, A
study on security diagnosis using
automated Google hacking tools-focusing
on the US government website. Journal of
Advances in Information
Technology, 7(2), pp.93-97. 2016.