Pentesting: Use Firefox Quicksearches To Lookup Bugtraq IDs From The Address Bar
By Daniel Miessler on September 21st, 2006: Tagged as Firefox | Information Security | Pentesting | Productivity
Just thought I’d pass on a little shortcut for looking up Bugtraq IDs:
** Firefox only
- Go to google.com and right click in the search field
- Select “Add a Keyword For This Search…”
- In the name field type, “Bugtraq Vulnerability Quicksearch” (or whatever)
- In the keyword field, enter “bid” or “vuln” — again, up to you. This is your shortcut.
- Save the bookmark and then go to Bookmarks –> Organize Bookmarks and edit the properties of the bookmark you just made.
- In the properties field, replace what’s there with the following URL:
- Save your bookmark again and prepare to be impressed.
Now, just go to your address bar (cmd/ctrl-L) and type bid 1499 , like so:
The results are beautiful:
