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/pd [PersonRank 10]

Friday, February 22, 2008
16 years ago4,103 views

Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) this week released a tool that turns Google into an automated vulnerability scanner

http://www.goolag.org/

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Few weeks back a member of ClubHack created a similar & better website by the name http://exploitsearch.com

Later that was added in "Five must-have security resources" by TechRepublic

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=403

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

More info on the Google Vulnerability Scanner:
http://www.crn.com/security/206801430

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[Moved from "Goolag Scanner released" – Tony]

From the announcement:
"Today CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc), the world's
most attractive hacker group, announced the release of Goolag Scanner, a web auditing tool. Goolag Scanner enables everyone to audit his or her own web site via Google. The scanner technology is based on "Google hacking," a form of vulnerability research developed by Johnny I Hack Stuff."
....

Link:
http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cms/main.php3

The page describes that tchnically
"Goolag Scanner is a standalone windows GUI based application. It uses one XML-based configuration file for its settings."
http://www.goolag.org/

Rohit Srivastwa [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Use it with care, you might end up blocking your IP address at Google & resulting in http://sorry.google.com/sorry/

JoshP [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

This vulnerability scanner is absolutely great. there is no doubt about it.
I'm sure it's just a matter of time till google stops helping it stay alive, but this is not my problem. I think that you can't rely on open source projects like that when talking about vulnerabilities detection. I think that a commercial business needs a commercial service. here is an example of a vulnerability scanner: beyondsecurity.com/vulnerability-scanner.html
There is a real company behind it and there is someone you can call to ask question.
Who can I call when there is a vulnerability on goolag that was not detected?

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