The number of companies that are being hacked because their data can be found
on Google is increasing.
Backup files are the most susceptible followed by remote administration
vulnerabilities.
The startling findings come after researchers working for
Massey
University in New Zealand wrote code that ran 170 queries a day for three
months against the Google database,
writes
the Inquirer.
They concentrated on the websites of companies in New Zealand, Australia, the
US and the Czech Republic, but found that sites across the world were becoming
increasingly vulnerable every day.
Sites in New Zealand had the least protection from Google hackers. This
included their own university website, where 50 vulnerabilities were discovered.
These have since been closed.
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