Google Hacking for Penetration Testers

The reason I purchased this book were scammers were trying to rent my house for half the market rate. Law enforcement and the FBI were not able to help. Law Enforcement because it was out of their jurisdiction, plus there was no crime, because money never changed hands. And the FBI because the dollar amount was too low.With this book I was able to track down the money mule, and was able to get the mules banking information, name, bank routing code, Home address, phone number etc.The main focus of the book is finding unsecured information over the internet. The tools that were provided were very valuable. One of the tools that I am currently using Alerts me via Email when anyone puts up one of these half price ads on Craig’s list or the internet in general.Some of the searches I did showed how unsecured the internet really is. With some simple searches I was able to find information that should have been confidential. A must read if you’re a LAN Administrator on how to protect your severs from curious lookers.

In reading through this book, I found a wealth of information that was quite useful, most notably the links to all of the other tools, sites and techniques available on the web. I am an internal corporate web application pen tester for a financial institution and will certainly use the techniques described in this text in our next vulnerability assessment. I do have one complaint however in that the corresponding website for the text [...] does not have the code from the book. Overall a great book and a fun read. Highly recommended.

It's an ok reference tool but .. Not necessary to purchase when you can simply find everything on Google - First thing you need to do is go here https://www.google.com/get/googletips?originalReferrer=https://www.google.com/url?sa=t ... Use all the tips that fit your needs. Then learn how to search effectively using https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/134479?hl=en and ensure you click everything under the "Become a search expert" section .. After you've read all of that you'll have enough knowledge to find the rest of the "hacking" info

The contents of this book are still relevant today even though it was published 4 years ago. Google hasn't change enough to make the examples obsolete. After working through the book I was able to create standard searches that helped me find sensitive information posted on a company web site and on 3rd party web sites. I've used what I learned in this book during penetration tests as well. I would recommend it for both auditors and penetration testers.

The book is a good primer on how to twerp Google searches but the folks at Google have examined it also -- then they made changes so the searches described in the book rarely work as stated and a lot of twerping has to go on until they do -- kind-of...worth the price if you know nothing about search strings

Big title , little effort. I really don't like posting negative content , but given the big title and price of this book I feel it is necessary. I was like YES can't wait to get into this little gem as I frequently use advanced google operators and am always looking for new data mining tips. I thought with the price of this book it must have alot of real world examples , thought process and details. Wrong , this book isn't even written intelligently it is a big market ploy with big price to make money. I wish I could return it for the principle , you get better tips from the google advanced operator built in help website. Sorry.

Great guide. I highly recommend it for anyone who uses Google, not just Penetration Testers. Some great tips for developers as well, using Google to search a site for web server and programming errors, although by the time Google sees it everyone else does as well.

Good pent testing source book

Interesting. Somewhat out of date and no longer ground breaking but still worth the read. Some good ideas that may trigger your own thoughts if you haven't thought them yet. Worth buying but don't expect your earth to move.