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Hackers turn to Google to find weakest links

Hackers turn to Google to find weakest links: “Computer hackers have adopted a startling strategy in their attempts to break into websites. By using the popular search engine Google, they do not 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.” From NewScientist.


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