Hacking made easy with Google Code Search

I was so bored while studing for the exams and just hit on this new Google Code Search. Oh! do you know what I was able to extract with several keyword combinations ? Whole bunch of FTP access and Database connection credentials of sites which are currently live on the net. Those credentials seems to be valid and I didn’t want to mess on those sites, so kept them as it is. It’s damn simple and even a 3 year old can be a hacker with this.

Anyway folks, better better keep your sites secure from the Google Code Spider. From what I read it seems to index all files, including the files in compressed archives found in the public directory. So don’t leave your important code there.

Comments

  • Prabhath
  • October 11th, 2006
    at 12:04 am

It’s damn simple and even a 3 year old can be a hacker with this.

You mean a cracker, not a hacker, I guess :-)

Sorry, I’m anal about some things :P

  • Theena
  • October 11th, 2006
    at 10:57 am

Oh man. I am afraid Google might have opened a can of worms with this one.

  • Lakshan
  • October 11th, 2006
    at 10:41 pm
  • Asela
  • October 13th, 2006
    at 7:00 am

A spammer could index thousands of developer email addresses with this. Scary how simple it is.

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