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The "Google Hack" Honeypot
An anonymous reader writes "On the heels of Google Hacking for Penetration Testers, and Johnny Long's talks at Blackhat/Defcon over the weekend, comes the "Google Hack" Honeypot, a honeypot designed to lure in malicious search engine activity. They had a second release of their tools on monday, according to their site."
No, this serves to find out how people are using Google to attempt to take control of your stuff (site, servers, etc). By learning more about the methods of attack, we can figure out how to prevent these attacks.
It's the usual hacking cycle brought to the search engine scene. Malicious hackers find ways to penetrate, and this will try to find a way to stop it. When it's stopped, the hackers will just move on to another way. Later, rinse, repeat.
Google hacking is the process of reconnaisance with a target, through the use of google.
What this means, is that an attacker has a target, he can use google to find information/vulnerabilities of this target without actually ever touching the target at all, thereby giving no warning.
It's a much "safer" way of reconnaisance than directly going to a page and attempting trial and error attacks... The attacked has no idea there is any reconnaisance taking place, yet the attacker is finding more and more information about exploiting their target.
"HONEYPOTS"
Honeypots are designed to be in a controlled vulnerable state. You set up a server with known vulernabilities and put it in a controlled area of your network. Depending on the software used, there are various levels of interaction the honeypot will allow. Complicated honeypots can replicate a large network, recording all activities of the attacker and keeping their interest for longer. Simple honeypots only allow basic actions, and the attacker will become bored more quickly and you will get less information./P.
Overclockers
try this search in Google: intitle:index.of "parent directory" *.mp3 This will turn out all mp3s out there on webservers that have directorylisting mistakenly turned on now you can change this to any file type, or any other specific filter that you are looking for. Thats "Google Hacks" in my books.. The honeypot would be to check for those kinds of searches and figure out how to counter them.