Net Hacker Tool du Jour: Google

from the obscure-no-more dept

It seems that the web is quickly becoming a smaller and smaller place. No longer can systems without any sort of security in place try to use a "security by obscurity" method of protecting their data. Thanks to Google, hackers are having an easy time finding completely unprotected databases online. The article focuses on a single example of doing a search on a common FileMaker Pro phrase, and discovering hundreds of unprotected online databases, including one that had detailed patient records for a medical school.
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    Anonymous Coward, 5 Mar 2003 @ 12:20am

    How is this any different than...

    ... "filetype: .mdb" searches?

    It's absolutely frightening the number of web crawler accessable information out there. Anyone who doesn't think information wants to be free and easily searchable needs to have their head examined.

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