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Anonymizing RFI Attacks Through Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anonymizing-isn't-in-my-spellchecker dept.

netbuzz writes "Noam Rathaus on his SecuriTeam blog describes a technique by which 'Google can be utilized to hack into websites — actively exploiting them (not information gathering by the use of "Google hacking," although that is how most of the sites vulnerable to RFI attacks are found).' He cites examples in the wild and even mentions that the technique could be used as a 'covert' communications channel."

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  1. Re:but is it a crime... by Opie812 · · Score: 2, Funny

    as someone who's father actually is a vicar...

    Are you new to slashdot? The proper way to phrase this....ummmm...phrase is as follows:

    My father's a vicar you insensitive clod!

    :)

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  2. Re:RFI? How about defining this? by Fatalis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, WTF is a TLA.

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