How to use Google for Hacking

Submitted by Srikanth on Tuesday, 29 December 200935 Comments

Google serves almost 80 percent of all search queries on the Internet, proving itself as the most popular search engine. However Google makes it possible to reach not only the publicly available information resources, but also gives access to some of the most confidential information that should never have been revealed. In this post I will show how to use Google for exploiting security vulnerabilities within websites. The following are some of the hacks that can be accomplished using Google.

1. Hacking Security Cameras

There exists many security cameras used for monitoring places like parking lots, college campus, road traffic etc. which can be hacked using Google so that you can view the images captured by those cameras in real time. All you have to do is use the following search query in Google. Type in Google search box exactly as follows and hit enter

inurl:”viewerframe?mode=motion”

Click on any of the search results (Top 5 recommended) and you will gain access to the live camera which has full controls. You will see something as follows

As you can see in the above screenshot, you now have access to the Live cameras which work in real-time. You can also move the cameras in all the four directions, perform actions such as zoom in and zoom out. This camera has really a less refresh rate. But there are other search queries through which you can gain access to other cameras which have faster refresh rates. So to access them just use the following search query.

intitle:”Live View / – AXIS”

Click on any of the search results to access a different set of live cameras. Thus you have hacked Security Cameras using Google.

2. Hacking Personal and Confidential Documents

Using Google it is possible to gain access to an email repository containing CV of hundreds of people which were created when applying for their jobs. The documents containing their Address, Phone, DOB, Education, Work experience etc. can be found just in seconds.

intitle:”curriculum vitae” “phone * * *” “address *” “e-mail”

You can gain access to a list of .xls (excel documents) which contain contact details including email addresses of large group of people. To do so type the following search query and hit enter.

filetype:xls inurl:”email.xls”

Also it’s possible to gain access to documents potentially containing information on bank accounts, financial summaries and credit card numbers using the following search query

intitle:index.of finances.xls

3. Hacking Google to gain access to Free Stuffs

Ever wondered how to hack Google for free music or ebooks. Well here is a way to do that. To download free music just enter the following query on google search box and hit enter.

“?intitle:index.of?mp3 eminem“

Now you’ll gain access to the whole index of eminem album where in you can download the songs of your choice. Instead of eminem you can subtitute the name of your favorite album. To search for the ebooks all you have to do is replace “eminem” with your favorite book name. Also replace “mp3″ with “pdf” or “zip” or “rar”.

I hope you enjoy this post. Pass your comments. Cheers!

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35 Comments »

Fujy said:

hah ! so cool ! very useful, thnks for this one

- 30 December 2009 at 6:05 pm

--:(CrambooK):-- said:

This is really helpful, i’ve being looking for a way to get CCNP materials online. i use the hack to find it easily.

Thanks Sri, i’ll like to have some discussion with you in priv8 my yahoo mail is cerbour[at]yahoo.com

- 30 December 2009 at 8:47 pm

vishal said:

its a very useful trick. lots of thanks///////////

- 31 December 2009 at 12:59 pm

boss said:

nyc thing but cant gain the control of the cameras, they are either locked or require password and id to navigate…!!!

- 31 December 2009 at 2:36 pm

funcky said:

that’s really great……
But when i used the first trick:
on the left top above the arrow keys which you have shown as screenshot there shows a message like “locked”
and not allowing to move the camera
Can i know whats the reason?

- 31 December 2009 at 5:42 pm

Bill said:

This is wonderful Srikant. But can you explain the logic behind this ?

- 2 January 2010 at 9:05 pm

Vinodh said:

Man it was really an awesome trick!!!!

- 3 January 2010 at 12:33 am

karthik said:

good post, thanks to the author!:)

- 4 January 2010 at 9:35 pm

holliday said:

Awsome! Found some great imformation.

- 5 January 2010 at 11:46 am

iRainbowBrite said:

Dear God. That was to awesome for words. :O
Thanks so much!

- 6 January 2010 at 11:27 am

Angelben said:

Diz is the BOMB!!! Awesome,men u’re more than 2 much

- 6 January 2010 at 5:08 pm

Sifiso said:

This is about the Google CCTV hack you have just done, I have the following questions to ask you.

(a) How in the world are CCTV camers linked to the internet?
(b) Is the any way to narrow down and target a specific CCTV camera?
(c) What are the precautions that could prevent this hack?

Your co-operation will be appreciated.

- 7 January 2010 at 10:39 pm

RVM said:

Hi,
Great trick, really appreciate it but when i tried to access the cameras the website asks for username and password(Authentication required)?Why is that???
reply soon……..

- 8 January 2010 at 12:59 pm

Hack3r said:

omg, you’re so pro. how did you know all this

- 9 January 2010 at 1:41 pm

Amit said:

I never thought google can be broken.
Great stuff man!!

- 10 January 2010 at 1:49 am

The Champ said:

Thanks dude, this is cool

- 11 January 2010 at 7:04 pm

Eric said:

Hi Man,
Really you should be spending all your time on the internet compiling this post.
This is really awesome. keep that up!!!
Great!!!

- 12 January 2010 at 7:19 pm

Robert said:

wow never thought things like this were possible

- 16 January 2010 at 12:56 am

King_smith said:

I love this thread keep it up man…….

- 16 January 2010 at 1:25 am

Abhijeet said:

Hi shrikant!So long to talk to you.This article is nice.Recently i have completed MCM(Master in computer management).It is pune versity course..Please guide me what to do next.I want be genious like you.You can also contact on girme_abhijeet@yahoo.in.Please i need your response.

- 16 January 2010 at 10:21 am

Abhijeet said:

HI!How will come to know which place is in photo and if we want to hack particular camera then what to do.How google show security camera photo

- 16 January 2010 at 10:33 am

Abhijeet said:

This website give lot of knowledge.I have learn lots of thing.I utilize this knowledge.Are there some more website?Please suggest

- 16 January 2010 at 10:41 am

David said:

Hello is it a problem if we do this thing? Please reply

- 18 January 2010 at 3:01 am

Nitin said:

Its not rocket science guys, google just does its work, these strings are just simple queries with some symbols which aid google in searching the results. For eg : intitle:”curriculum vitae” “phone * * *” “address *” “e-mail”
in this query ” ” means that google will search the exact word within that ” ” and * means that it can be anything like we use jokers when we play cards ..for eg when we type file *.* then it will list all files with any name and extension.. Try with your computer go to search and type *.*.

- 19 January 2010 at 12:43 am

Srikanth (author) said:

@ David

No there isn’t anything illegal in doing the above trick. It’s just an advanced way to use Google search!

- 20 January 2010 at 9:32 pm

Srikanth (author) said:

@ RVM

Some sites ask and some don’t. It’s just a way to show the advance usage of Google to dig confidential data.

- 21 January 2010 at 4:06 pm

Georghi said:

this is really cool, keep it up.

- 25 January 2010 at 8:01 pm

Sagar said:

Amazing post Srikanth. A piece of advice though….It’ll be great if u give a little detail abt each of the query that u mentioned above to provide more flexibility to me n other readers so that we can search, rather exploit more of the Google.

- 1 February 2010 at 1:01 am

darkknight said:

Nice job, these are known as advance search technique or in our world google dorks you can even search them on google you can find 100’s of them.

- 5 February 2010 at 9:56 am

arun said:

“superb dude keep it up dam good job seriously i did got everything here”

- 11 February 2010 at 10:48 am

sdfsdfsd said:

but the confidential data is just random rite?? wat to do to get some particular person’s info?

- 13 February 2010 at 2:10 am

swapnil said:

Hey Sir,
wow!now that’s really cool.I am too weak in computer’s world,and had never thought that it wud b so easy to do things like that.Great job!thnks.

- 22 February 2010 at 6:23 pm

gamba said: