News Sites, Newsgroups and Search Engines
News SitesSearching through news sites such as CNN (www.cnn.com) or the BBC
(www.bbc.co.uk) can yield the latest press releases made by a company
and tell of potential or current business partners, leading or recently
sacked or discredited employees, and of course a little more
background information.
Newsgroups
Searching through the news groups such as Usenet (www.usenet.com)
can also be productive. If it is known that certain employees regularly
post to a group then they may not be too discreet in what they post or
leading questions could be posted to induce them to respond with
“inside” knowledge. In addition to this a disgruntled employee may
post sensitive company information to a news group for anyone to take
advantage of.
Search Engines
Search engines can return articles written about the company or sites
containing information relating to weaknesses and vulnerabilities in
software that they may be running or products they market. Searching
for vulnerabilities will be covered in more depth in a later section.
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