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Google Dorks

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Google hacking, also named Google dorking, is a hacker technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites are using. Dorks also works on Startpage or Duckduckgo.

Information Gathering

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Information Gathering, often referred to as Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) in the context of ethical hacking, is the systematic collection and analysis of publicly available data about a target, providing the foundational knowledge necessary to identify potential vulnerabilities and craft targeted security assessments.

Sock Puppets

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sock puppets are fake identities use to gather information from a target. The sock puppet should have no link between your personal information and the fakes ones. (No ip address, mail, follow, etc..)

Tips

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Visualisation

Use OSINTracker to visualise your findings. It allows you to create a graph of your findings, which can help you see connections and relationships between different pieces of information.

Forgotten passwords

To find email addresses and phone numbers associated with an account, you can click on “Forgot password?” on the login page of a website. Be careful, though, this creates notifications and can be detected by the target, and often gives your information away.

Twitter/X OSINT

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The banner URL includes a Unix timestamp indicating when the banner was last updated.

For example: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/1564326938851921921/1750897704/600x200

In this case, 1750897704 is the timestamp. You can convert it using unixtimestamp.com or any other Unix time converter.

OSINT on nix4cyber

Google Dorks

Information Gathering

Sock Puppets

Tips

Visualisation

Forgotten passwords

Twitter/X OSINT

Banner last update time