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Published inFeb 2022
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Glen D. Singh
Glen D. Singh
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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Exploring Google hacking strategies

The concept of Google hacking, sometimes referred to as Google dorking, is not the process of hacking into Google's network infrastructure or systems, but rather using advanced search parameters within the Google search engine to filter specific results. Many organizations don't always pay close attention to which systems and resources they are exposing on the internet. Google is a very powerful search engine that crawls/indexes everything on the internet and filters most malicious websites. Since Google indexes everything, the search engine can automatically discover the hidden online directories, resources, and login portals of many organizations.

Important Note

Using Google hacking techniques is not illegal but there's a very fine line that you shouldn't cross; otherwise, you'll be in legal trouble. We can use Google hacking techniques to discover hidden and sensitive locations on the internet, but if you use such...

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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
Read more about Glen D. Singh