http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23069.html
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 28/11/2001 at 12:25 GMT
Some clever empiricist appears to have been abusing Google to attack
Web servers, switches and routers in a novel way, by crafting search
terms to include known exploits. Such a search will occasionally yield
active Web pages used by administrators. On top of that, a number of
them have already been cached. It's reasonable to surmise that a
hacker has been using Google not merely to search for vulnerabilities,
but as a proxy to hide behind while executing attacks.
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