Modern-Day Library of Alexandria Burned: Internet Archive Attack

We were first exposed to the Internet Archive ages ago through their service the Wayback Machine, which archives websites. It’s a pretty cool service and really interesting to see old 00’s websites as well as see how web pages for certain sites evolved over time. From an offensive cyber security and OSINT perspective, the Wayback

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Interesting Website .txt Files

From an OSINT perspective there are various interesting .txt files that websites can utilize that perform various functions and they contain a lot of useful information. robots.txt This text file, is found in the root directory of a website (e.g. https://example.com/robots.txt) This file gives instructions to bots, crawlers, and spiders using the Robots Exclusion Protocol.

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