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Google bots subversion

There is a lot of truth in saying that every tool can be used by good and by evil. There is no point in blocking the tools themselves as the attacker will turn to new tools and subvert the very familiar tools in unexpected ways. Now Google crawler bots were turned into such a weapon ...

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The art of unexpected

I am reading through the report of a Google vulnerability on The Reg and laughing. This is a wonderful demonstration of what the attackers do to your systems – they apply the unexpected. The story is always the same. When we build a system, we try to foresee the ways in which it will be ...

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