Re: Hackers turn to Google to find weakest links

2003-10-24 Thread Alan Jackson
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:10:29 +0530 Sohel Shaheen Mallik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One way that hackers can break into a website is by hunting for private pages that contain the usernames and passwords required to access secure parts of the site. These pages are usually hidden from the casual

Hackers turn to Google to find weakest links

2003-10-24 Thread Sohel Shaheen Mallik
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