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The UK’s Times Online is reporting that the CIA is using servers equipped with Google search engine technology to share information gathered on suspects.
US government agencies like the National Security Agency have purchased servers loaded with Google search technology to process information gathered by their network of spies around the world.
Google also provides the search engine technologoy for a Wikipedia-style site, called Intellipedia, where agents can post intelligence information about their targets that can be accessed and modified by other intelligence professionals.
Intellipedia allows agents to post intelligence information to a secured wiki forum that other spies can read, edit, and tag like other Web 2.0 collaboration sites.
Thus far 37,000 intelligence professionals have created accounts on Intellipedia, and the database now contains 35,000 articles.
Intellipedia is hosted by the director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, and is available only to the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency, and other intelligence departments.
Source: Times Online
“Google hacking” is a term used to describe the use of specialized Google search queries along with advanced Google operators to find network security holes on websites and computer networks as well as personal information on people that the Google search engine has indexed. The webmasters and IT professionals that overlook these security vulnerabilities and exposed personal information, like names and passwords, allowing Google to index the information and make it available in search engine results are typically referred to as “Googledorks”
Johnny Long, author of Google Hacking for Penetration Testers volumes 1 and 2, is one of the foremost experts on hacking the Google search engine to find information on people and computer networks. He runs an online database of Google hack examples that can be used by both White Hat Hackers ( good hackers ); Black Hat Hackers ( malicious hackers ) as well as computer forensics professionals to find sensitive information through various Google searches.
Google searches can reveal a goldmine of sensitive personal and network information, including: network security vulnerabilities; error messages that reveal too much personal and network information; files that contain sensitive information about people; username and password files; login pages; sensitive directories; personal online shopping and ecommerce information; networked devices, like printers and video cameras; vulnerable files and web servers.
If you want to find out just how much information Google has indexed about you or your computer network, start practicing some of the the Google searches and advanced operators, using search terms that apply to you, family, friends or your own computer network.
You can access the Google hacks database @ ihackstuff.com
Google Maps has published this quick and informative YouTube.com video tutorial to help users learn some of the handy ways you can use their “Street View” feature to explore 360 degree street level images of major US cities.
Google has produced the following YouTube.com video clip to show people how to use their free 411 directory assistance service ( 1-800-GOOG-411 ) and explain its unique features.
Google is out to capture photo and video recordings of major US cities and their roaming Chevy Cobalt camera cars, equipped with Ladybug2 Sperical Cameras, are being spotted all over the United States.
Here are some interesting blog posts from gizmodo.com that discuss the Google Streetview project:
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