RE: Website search engine is a hacking tool..

["Vinicius Moreira Mello" <vinicius () lineone net>]

Hi,

> -- Original Message --
> Subject: RE: Website search engine is a hacking tool..
> From: Amal Mohammad Al Hajeri <amal () nis etisalat ae>
>
>  and how can we mitigate the risk of using such techniques? did anyone
succeed in using
> the local search engine as a proxy to attack other targets?

Try disabling indexing (apache: Option -Indexes) for as much directories
as possible and not using/protecting critical files under the webserver
(ch)root diretory.

Regards,
vmm.

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