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Things you don't want Google to find - screenshots
siliconvalleysleuth.com — "Hacking Google" isn't exactly new. That is, using the search engine to look for confidential information. But as McAfee's senior vice president for Risk Management George Kurtz demonstrated at RSA Conference, that didn't prevent users and organisations to post those goodies online for anyone to find.
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- thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.onlamp.com/security/2004/10/07/examples/signatures.txt
- MegaSilver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Nice screen shots!
- AttroPheed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Best. Screenshots. Ever.
- sam54m, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1digg for the screenshots
- AnimeRules15421, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice screenshots. (lol)
- potifer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ah, creepy Google.
- SoccerBoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Gotta love the screenshots... DIGG
- rodball, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Following a link in the comments section, we find:
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Hi.
Normally, my site is here, but we're getting pounded with traffic so the site has curled up into the fetal position until things cool down.
Please check back later!
Thanks,
j0hnny - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you didn't want it found, WHY DID YOU PUT IT ON THE WEB???
Sheesh, some people have more money than they have sense. Yay Google, helping us find things. - Ogotai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i agree with geminitojanus... Or at least if i don't want public access on your web page, you put password. But probably google have some reasons to do things like that.
- Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hahaha awesome, :P
- aMillionAndNine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think they actually have programs now that can take screenshots.
It was interesting though. - domusvita, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Those screenshots were so freaky I thought my monitor sprouted several inner monitors.
- cmajewski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nice tips...but the screenshots were indeed priceless
- cielerella, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mwahahahaha!
- Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol i just did my own search and found random people's social security numbers.
good thing im no criminal, hehe - krbjljb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I double checked the whitehouse.gov/robots.txt and it appears they've added "robots.txt" to the list to Disallow. Funny.
- Sarsura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another priceless thing is that the whitehouse robots.txt file contains the following:
disallow: /911/911day/iraq
disallow: /911/heroes/iraq - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2haha, looks like screenPHOTOS.. someone doesnt know how to take screenshots
(how embarassing) - TheKidd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not really new, but I love reading that ***** so DUGG
- sporkwitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Same, it's common knowledge, but you gotta love it. Nothing pleases me more than waking up in the morning and just googling up some unencrypted, plain-text password files. But then again, I can always just go to rainbowcrack if I really need in.....
- TheFlyingMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Isnt that kind of irresponsible to post someone's SS number?
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"haha, looks like screenPHOTOS.. someone doesnt know how to take screenshots
(how embarassing)"
tell me about it, there are only ten thousand different screen capture programs out there. My favorite is purrint. How sophisticated can this person really be if he can't take a screenshot? - uncle_jesse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ha! Love the whitehouse.gov thing - hopefully those aren't files and directories that jeapordize National Security.
- chimona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0those ssn's looked encoded or something, does anybody's ssn start with zero?
- etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nah - that's just stuff they don't want Google to see. Most of that stuff a normal user can get to (ie. is supposed to be able to get to). What would be bad is if they let you list those folders, which they don't.
- Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google is TOO good... which is diggable..
GO GOOG! - NeuralOverload, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice screenshots, and omg whitehouse.gov's robots.txt is the longest ive ever seen...
- 1111, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0maybe he just wanted that sort of feel for the photos? didnt seem too out of place to me for this type of article.
- PowerCow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0LOL the print screen button on your keyboard has been able to take screenshots for years..
it copys to clipboard just paste in ur favorite graffics program or even mspaint..
lol what dolt takes pictures of the computer screen. lol - ssquire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0digg-effect on Google? I've been getting slow responses recently.
- werddrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The most fun with google hacking is finding webcams... Sometimes even ones you can control.
- PowerCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6powercow, you and the rest of them are dolts.. this guy attended a conference where someone else had this demostrated on a screen and he took pictures and wrote about it.. i dont think he had access to the machines to make a proper screenshot..the guy who did the demo pictured last.. not the bloggers picture... so i say taking pictures is better than just reading his blog about it without picts.. and all of you especially powercow are idiots.
- miskaone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is incredible, someone better call the Chinese consulate.
- YoDiggity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1from the whitehouse.gov robot.txt: Disallow: /katrina/text
how quaint - headswine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Wow! I immdiately found a list of over 2M email addresses...
http://www.gfx.com - kakapu4u, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The screen shots from the article showed a directory on www.whitehouse.gov that doesn't exist anymore. There's no /360pics/iraq in the list now... I wanted to see those. :(
www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt - ZMoney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why is 360pics a dir in whitehouse.gov?
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"If you didn't want it found, WHY DID YOU PUT IT ON THE WEB???"
The problem is that people frequently
(1) don't realize how powerful google is, and assume that no one will ever try to access their site (comperable to leaving your front door unlocked and hoping no one will ever try to open it)
(2) don't realize they're putting their things on the net to begin with (e.g. netgear config login page) - Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"digg-effect on Google? I've been getting slow responses recently."
I really hope that was sacracstic. - mdweaver7485, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Funny thing is someone posted a link to Johny Hack Stuff last night in the google data mining stories. Spent three hours just goolging things last night umm wow very scary stuff and very scary that I have that little of a life.
@werddrew - yeah that is kinda fun. whats the legality on that when its something you can find on google? anyone know. I was expecting quite a few public ones, and most were like ones for marinas and parks and aqauriums but there were some weird ass cams like, monitoring warehouses and stores.
Whats the legal matter on that? Keeping in mind it is on Google and is publicly accessible, no passwords or security compromises required. - YoDiggity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/barney/photoessay/text/
"Barney Bush plays on the White House lawn with his red ball. " - memphfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sigh. They are photos taken of a presentation, not screen shots. That's a screen that they are being projected too. You are all very observant, and slow to point out the shortcomings of others
- lvlolvlo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Give credit where it's due you bastards!
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ - glacious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Just so you momo's know...
The screenshots were not 'screenshots'. The were pictures taken at a conference, of the screen with projected images on it.
FYI. Now you can all stop wasting post space with those comments. - altjeringa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nothing new but there are so many people out there that don't even get basic web security... had to dig it for their sake.
- m4ff3w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.google.com/search?hs=qpq&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=filetype%3Apdf+The+Google+Hacker%E2%80%99s+Guide&btnG=Search
- Squidsta711, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0pooned
- TomP, on 10/12/2007, -2/+00wnage
- Tom | http://www.tomwrote.info - Teridon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Linksys configuration pages:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22This+screen+contains+all+of+the+router%27s+basic+setup+functions%22+%22host+name%3A%22 -
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