This technique is used for both ethical and malicious purposes: ENISA Threat LANDSCAPE 2021
: The minus sign ( - ) is an exclusion operator. It tells Google to remove any results that contain these specific domains. Users do this to focus on corporate, government, or private domain emails (e.g., @companyname.com ) instead of generic personal ones. -gmail.com -yahoo.com -hotmail.com -aol.com txt 2021
Each part of this "dork" serves a filter function to narrow down millions of web pages into a specific set of potentially sensitive files: This technique is used for both ethical and
: This limits the results to files created or containing information from the year 2021, ensuring the data is relatively recent and potentially still "active". Why This Search is Performed or private domain emails (e.g.