Hacking Utility Overlay For Google
We’re all being warned to protect our data at all costs following news that the Cult of the Dead Cow hacking group has released Goolag Scan, a hacking utility overlay for Google. Lock up your daughters and head for the hills …
Advanced Google searching has been known about in security circles for some time, but it has been a highly specialised and technical topic that is definitely not for non-programmers. What Goolag Scan does is to allow even a novice to scan Google for interesting and normally hidden Web-based data, using more than 1500 customised Google search routines. Data which can be revealed by the Windows-based application reportedly includes passwords on application servers, credit card numbers and allied databases held on Web-accessible portals, company e-mail records and audit logs, and a variety of other company confidential information.
Companies protect their Web-based and Internet gateway - accessible data using ID and password systems - but the actual data pages are often unprotected. Even though the pages are not indexed in the standard sense, Goolag Scan can prise the data out into the open and allow standard keyword searching on those pages. While some security sources have played down the importance of Goolag Scan’s development, it shows the increasing sophistication of hackers and really proves the point that geeks can’t get laid - othwise they’d have much better things to be doing with their time!
Advanced hackers can now pass on their abilities to novice or newbie hackers using quite complex applications. The bad news (depends on how you look at it I suppose) is that the altruistic nature of the non-criminal hacking community is such that these applications are being offered for free.
