Security

October Is Cyber Security Awareness Month

Society is becoming ever more digitally connected. This means that businesses, non-profit, and government entities are conducting more and more of their business via the internet. So too are individuals who, for more and more of their day to day activities such as shopping, scheduling doctor’s appointments, doing homework, connecting with family and friends, and finding entertainment, are using desktop and laptop computers as well as a multitude of mobile devices on the internet.

Google Crawling Password Protected Pages

Posted April 07, 2010

A good number of hackers have discovered a technique of using custom Google strings to find passwords on websites. Even though this technique has been discovered a while ago, as of today you can still find an enormous list of sites with wide open passwords. In this blog, I will talk about how to use Google to crawl sites with passwords and how to prevent your site being one of the ones that appear on this search result.