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intelliot
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 Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 9:21 am Post subject: Could search engines aid worms? |
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| Quote: | "Search engines basically crawl Web sites and all their links, and categorize them," says Shlomo Kramer, CEO and president of Imperva Inc., a Web application security company. Among the ways search site "bots" categorize sites is by their vulnerability.
"These vulnerabilities are indexed and saved in a very organized way, and are available for anybody to access," Kramer says.
A worm could contain code to seek out those particular search engine lists. It wouldn't have to scan thousands, or tens of thousands, of pages to find its next target, Kramer says. The worm could just check the search engine's list of vulnerable sites, because every site on that list would be a good target.
Such lists are compiled by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and other leading search sites, Kramer says, and analysts agree that danger of their exploitation exists.
"The real difference that search engines bring is a new way that worms can find vulnerable systems," says John Pescatore, vice president for Internet security at Gartner Inc. "[Worms like] Code Red and Nimda just started pounding on the Internet, and you had time to react. The search engine attack is quieter, so worms can get further along without people noticing." |
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Jessica Lares
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, it could, but I highly doubt Google wouldn't notice. I mean, those buggers are tough, but it's really easy for someone to destroy it, like Microsoft did with the Sasser Worm.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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In theory there could be worms crawling Google. However, Google could probably track down who's making the bot crawl them. Off to jail they go.
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