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The Google attack engine
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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 03:00:02 -0600 (CST)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23069.html By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 28/11/2001 at 12:25 GMT Some clever empiricist appears to have been abusing Google to attack Web servers, switches and routers in a novel way, by crafting search terms to include known exploits. Such a search will occasionally yield active Web pages used by administrators. On top of that, a number of them have already been cached. It's reasonable to surmise that a hacker has been using Google not merely to search for vulnerabilities, but as a proxy to hide behind while executing attacks. [...] - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomo () attrition org with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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