Cult of the Dead Cow, or cDc, an old-school hacking crew famous for its anti-censorship stance, has shipped a new tool that <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Lightweight-Tool-Turns-Google-into-Vulnerability-Scanner/?kc=EWKNLNAV022208STR3">turns the Google search engine into an easy-to-use vulnerability scanner.</A>

Taking its cue from Johnny Long's Google Dorks--search queries that reveal sensitive information--cDc's new Goolag Scan pushes the envelope even more, offering a stand-alone Windows GUI-based application to power the searchers.

The open-source program comes with about 1,500 custom Google search queries embedded by default to run searches for vulnerable Web applications, misconfigured Web servers with open backdoors, sensitive user names and passwords, and other documents accidentally exposed on the Internet.