Hacking Google for fun and profit

Hacking Google for fun and profit
John Leyden, The Register 2005-04-29

Insecure websites are not the only venues at risk from Google-hacking. Network hardware can be hacked, cached printing pages can be perused and security cameras snooped on thanks to evolutions in attack techniques that are dumbing down network attacks.

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Blaming Google for this is ridiculous 2005-05-01
Roger

What we are talking about here is misconfigured websites where sensitive information has accidentally or carelessly been made publicly available. The vulnerability has nothing to do with Google, and might well have been found anyway; all the search engine does is make such sites easier to enumerate....

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You people sound like the media.. 2005-05-03
Janice

You sound like those nice movies from tv

when the guy breaks in just after a 2 minutes

scan.Breaking in and turning off lights and

stuff like that , come on this is SecurityFocus

and it's the OpenBSD era.You keep scaring

people with stuff like that and whoever reads

this page thinks he...

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Hacking Google for fun and profit 2005-05-03
Monu Agrawal

It's a great challenge for many people to protect the private data from web hackers. But hacking was this much easy ever. Now google has shown the hackers the gate, they just have enter in. Don't expect from Google that it will protect you. Google is not only the way to find unsecure gate. The same ...

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Hacking Google for fun and profit 2006-10-13
Chiron

This has been possible for quite some time. It was always a simple matter to do a query using the text of a badly-written routine, to find out where that appeared on the Internet.

Google isn't making anything possible, that wasn't already easily done. It's not doing anything to hurt security. ...

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