Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Google Plugs Hole That Lets You Remove Any Website

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-we-uhh-meant-to-do-that dept.

blowdart writes "Google today disabled their webmaster tools after it was discovered that anyone could use the tool to remove any site from the google index. The exploit was pretty simple, all anyone had to do was to have a google webmasters tool account and edit a query string parameter on a valid removal to point to a domain they didn't own!"

1 of 116 comments (clear)

  1. I really wish... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this hole was open long enough for someone to remove Expert Exchange & all the other BS...