Attackers are increasingly leveraging the power of search engines, like Google, to successfully carry out automated cyber attacks against vulnerable websites, according to Imperva. Dubbed “Google Hacking,” hackers armed with a browser and specially crafted search queries (“Dorks”), are using botnets to generate more than 80,000 daily queries, identify potential attack targets and build an accurate picture of the resources within that server that are potentially exposed. By automating the query and result parsing, the … Continue reading Search engine hack innovation