The Dark Side of Google |
Google is the most popular, powerful searching tool and is used by pretty much all the web community. However, it is so powerful that Google can easily be turned into a very useful hacking tool, if misused by ill-intentioned people: in fact, by deliberately searching for confidential and sensitive information that the search engine may have inadvertently picked up, Google clearly shows us its dark side and it will indeed be possible to locate and exploit several targets across the web thanks to Google.Thus, lots of sensitive data, such as passwords, credit card numbers or even social security numbers are readily accessible to hackers, who would simply make use of Google to find them. In that way, Google is nowadays considered as a real double-edged tool and some alternatives should quickly be implemented to counterattack the Google Hacking phenomenon.
Ly T, Papadaki M
In that way, our project work would be to explore and analyse the general threat posed by Google hacking. The outlines of our work would then include the investigation through different real cases of security intrusions that involved Google hacking and would also propose some ways of detecting and responding to these types of attacks. Therefore, the preventive solution that we suggested would be to set up a GHH (Google Hack Honeypot), which would allow security specialists to study the profile of attackers, in order to anticipate their next move.