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Hackers turn to Google to find weakest links

By Celeste Biever

2 August 2003

COMPUTER hackers have adopted a startling strategy in their attempts to break into websites. By using the popular search engine Google, they don’t have to visit a site to plan an attack. Instead, they can get all the information they need from Google’s cached versions of web pages, say experts in the US.

One way that hackers can break into a website is by hunting for private pages that contain the usernames and passwords required to access secure parts of the site. These pages are usually hidden from the casual browser because there are no hyperlinks to them on the…

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