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Re: Google lists vulnerable sites.


From: "Kurt Seifried" <bugtraq () seifried org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:28:11 -0600

Let me first say that I do now know if this issue has been brought to
light before or in what detail it might have been discussed.  On to the
show...

It's been brought to light, though not much publicly (like many things).

The problem I have found is that google may be archiving too much
information on sites.  By carefully crafting search strings you can

It gets much worse. We alerted customers to:

http://www.codito.de/prog/mass-scan.gz.

on June 13, it's been out a while, and I'm betting it's not the only one.

The best though is google's cached data, you don't even have to visit the
website half the time to view the sensitive information. It's a great way
for avoiding paysites (well.. avoiding paying for the content on the
paysites that is ;).

Kurt Seifried, kurt () seifried org
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