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Thursday 23rd November, 2006 12:10 Comments: 1
Anonymizing RFI Attacks Through Google
By placing a URL on any web page, Google will find it, visit it and then index it. With this mechanism, it is possible to anonymize attacks on third party web sites through Google by the use of its crawler.
Very clever. And I can't think of a single decent way of stopping it from happening :(
By placing a URL on any web page, Google will find it, visit it and then index it. With this mechanism, it is possible to anonymize attacks on third party web sites through Google by the use of its crawler.
Very clever. And I can't think of a single decent way of stopping it from happening :(

I've just discovered that you can do this using Google Translate, because the URL to be translated is also submitted via GET and will be visited immediately by some Google server.