Describe Google hacking and provide an example.

What will be an ideal response?

Another type of security research is called Google hacking. The idea is to use the advanced search options provided by Google to locate more and more information about your target. Although advanced Google searches are not malicious in and of themselves, attackers are using the search to further their recon efforts. For example, a simple search might reveal any site that links to a proposed target. By doing more focused research into a company, however, an attacker can often find additional Internet locations that are not commonly associated with the company - such as business-to-business (B2B) partners and subsidiaries. Armed with this information, the attacker can find the weakest link into the target network.