Google Fu
Google is a super helpful source of information for pentesters that makes a successful pentester.
An overview of the syntax for Google’s search engine can easily be found online. Some of these operators can be used to narrow down our search results and improve the quality of our results a lot.
- site:tesla.com will limit the results to hits on the domains ending on tesla.com
- Certain subdomains can be taken out of the search results with the - operator, e.g. site:tesla.com -www
- One can also search for specific filetypes, e.g. for pdf documents, with the filetype qualifier, e.g. site: tesla filetype:pdf. It is sometimes possible to find documents (e.g. doc, docx, xlsx, csv, etc.) with highly sensitive information just by searching for these filetypes.
In addition to the hints in the video, I should familiarize myself with the many details provided on the above-named website.