Cache Servers Keeping Exploit Code Alive

1960's architecture writes, "At last some evidence that exploit code is hiding on servers used to cache website content. According to Techworld, Israeli outfit Finjan has come up with evidence that real exploits have hidden on cache servers used by large search engines, effectively extending their life for periods of weeks after the original website had been taken down. The exploits detailed are from 2003-2004, but the principle would still apply to any exploit website around today, and any cache servers used by any one of the three unnamed search engines. It's almost literally malware 'life after death.'"

Comments

What about e-muggers?

[celardore]

Hey sucka, gimme your cache!

More needs to be done

[nickheart]

... and think of all those old hard disks with exploits on them. We need to go to the dump and degauss all of them, NOW! C'mon people, this is a security issue.

gimme a break, a cache is a cache, it's supposed to have old information, even if that information is wrong, or destructive.

Re:news to me

[geoffspear]

If by "like the live sites" you mean "not at all", then yes, they're scanned exactly the same.

on with the slashdot mantra

[russ1337]

Its important to cache, so you can find jems like this!

Almost literally?

[tobiasly]

It's almost literally malware 'life after death.'

But is it almost literally, or literally almost? What would make it true life after death? (Literally)

Like Joe Rogan said

[Lord Kano]

Trying to get something off of the internet is like trying to get pee out of a pool.

Why not just patch the vulnerabilities? If publishers would fix their shortcomings then it wouldn't be an issue.

LK