On November 23, 2022, the leading developer of the media holding “United Radio Group” and the assistant of the Department of Economic Cybernetics of Sumy State University Oleksandr Serhiyovych Kushnerev met with the students of the Department of Economic Cybernetics and shared his experience of working with the OSINT approach. At the meeting, students learned about Google Dork Queries (GDQ) – a set of queries to identify pages indexed by the search engine. The topic of OSINT (Open source intelligence) or intelligence based on open sources, which includes the search, collection and analysis of information obtained from publicly available sources, was also revealed. The key goal is to find information of value to an attacker or competitor.
Oleksandr began to introduce the students to the information search feature in Google. The list of search records that were used at the meeting can be seen below
“information security” – the use of quotation marks filters the direct occurrence of the phrase
napoleon +cake – excludes individual results from the search
site:ek.biem.sumdu.edu.ua – will show all indexed pages of the site
site:ek.biem.sumdu.edu.ua Introduction – will find all mentions of the request on the site
allintitle: information security – all the specified words are found in the title
intext: social engineering – search query in the body of pages and files posted on the network
allintext: social engineering – show pages where the search phrase is found in the body
cache:ek.biem.sumdu.edu.ua – see a snapshot of the site at the time of the last indexing
link:ek.biem.sumdu.edu.ua – find pages that have a link to the specified address
info:ek.biem.sumdu.edu.ua – will issue information on the specified domain
“information security” filetype:pdf (or filetype:docx) – searches for pdf (or docx) type files where the phrase information security occurs
The Department of Economic Cybernetics is sincerely grateful to Oleksandr Serhiyovych for a meaningful and interesting meeting!
