Creating usernames using Google and Linkedin

[tadaka at gmail.com (Jason Wood)]

Robin, feel free to use it in CeWL or wherever else.

Larry, I changed the script to take the number of results pages you want as
an argument and put it on the site.

Glad you guys liked it.  :)

Jason

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Larry Pesce <larry at pauldotcom.com> wrote:

> Wow, this works like a freaking champ.  Now to NOT throttle it to the
> first page of google results. :-)
>
> Jason, you can be sure I'll be adding this to my recon methodologies,
> whether this script, or though CEWL.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - L
>
> Jason Wood wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > I was messing with something today and remembered episode 129 had a
> > segment on using a target company's website to generate passwords.  I
> > tried it out and with a bit tweaking it worked great.  But I also wanted
> > a username list that was targeted for the company.  I took a twist on
> > creating passwords and did some queries on Google such as
> > "site:linkedin.com <http://linkedin.com> CompanyName".  In my case, I
> > found 26 pages of search results containing almost nothing but people's
> > full names.
> >
> > I found a python script that pdp at gnucitizen had written to pull
> > google search results.  I did some hacking on it and came up with a
> > script to create a list of usernames using the targeted search results.
> > It creates the basic variations of first initial, last name and
> > firstname, last initial.  I'm not a python scripter, so if you have any
> > suggestions on improvements please let me know.  I've got it dialed down
> > to only take the first page's results.  You can download it at
> > http://www.jwnetworkconsulting.com/downloads/usernameGen.txt
> >
> > The only real defense I can think of against this is to make sure
> > usernames at your organization are not based on their names.  I know
> > from experience that people will absolutely HATE it, but it would work.
> >
> > Any how, hopefully this is useful to someone else.
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
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