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[email protected] (Glenn Cramond)

31/07/2003 7:04 AM

hackers

Interesting article on
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994002

"Computer hackers have adopted a startling strategy in their attempts
to break into websites. By using the popular search engine Google,
they do not have to visit a site to plan an attack. Instead, they can
get all the information they need from Google's cached versions of web
pages, say experts in the US."
Glenn


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FK

"Frank Ketchum"

in reply to [email protected] (Glenn Cramond) on 31/07/2003 7:04 AM

31/07/2003 10:17 PM


"Glenn Cramond" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Interesting article on
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994002
>
> "Computer hackers have adopted a startling strategy in their attempts
> to break into websites. By using the popular search engine Google,
> they do not have to visit a site to plan an attack. Instead, they can
> get all the information they need from Google's cached versions of web
> pages, say experts in the US."
> Glenn

Any web developer who is stupid enough to embed site passwords and admin
user names even in the hidden html of a webpage gets what he deserves.



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