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Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackey

Ethical Hacking

MIS 5211.702 ■ Fall 2020 ■ Wade Mackey
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Accessing Google User’s Account Information using GHunt

November 2, 2020 by Vraj Patel Leave a Comment

GHunt is an open-source intelligence (OSINT) tool which can be used to explore the data that are created by the Google account (Pritchard, 2020). GHunt is an OSINT tool which uses an open source information to compile data of a user identities and activities. GHunt can be used to analyze the uses data by just having the users email address. GHunt can extract the users name, YouTube channel, and other Google Services.

GHunt tool was being developed by Thomas Hertzog. GHunt can be used by white hat and penetration tester to find out if the email address found during an testing can leak any other information. Individual and business can use this tool to identify how much of their information is available publicly.

References:

Pritchard, S. 2020. GHunt OSINT tool sniffs out Google users’ account information using just their email address. Retrived from: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/ghunt-osint-tool-sniffs-out-google-users-account-information-using-just-their-email-address

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