For everyone else: Do not store passwords in logs. Do not upload logs to public web roots. And if you see this dork in your server logs, know that a security researcher is likely doing you a favor—whether you asked for it or not. Want to learn more about defensive OSINT? Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly dork breakdowns and security fixes.
Find publicly indexed .log files that contain usernames and passwords (specifically for Facebook) where the issue might reportedly be "fixed," but the log remnants remain online. Why This Dork Works (The Technical Reality) You might think, "Surely Google doesn't index password files." You would be wrong. allintext username filetype log passwordlog facebook fixed
<FilesMatch "\.(log|txt|sql)$"> Require all denied </FilesMatch> Remove Options +Indexes from your server config. Without directory listing, Google cannot crawl the tree of log files. 5. Use robots.txt and remove from index Add: For everyone else: Do not store passwords in logs
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