Confidential US Security Documents found in Google.

A Web site has published what it claims are confidential documents from the US Department of Homeland Security relating to possible terrorist activity. According to the Web site hosting this information, the Department of Energy accidentally published the documents online, which were then discovered by Google and added to its cache of Web content. The mistake was subsequently spotted and the documents taken down, but the Web site owners were able to use Google to find the documents in its cache, and copy and publish them.

Google hacking, accessing confidential data from publicly available links on the search engine, is set to become a big problem this year, experts have predicted. Security company. CyberTrust has warned that Internet-connected devices, even Web cams, must be treated as a potential security threat.

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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39185392,00.htm

30/01/2005

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