dstiles - 11:04 pm on Apr 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

Last year I had to advise a customer to turn off google toolbar when using his control panel. I'm not saying google actually LOOKS at what is going on but I wouldn't bet they don't. I didn't find any evidence that they did in that instance but there was a suggestion here in a recent thread that google may take notice.

At one point a year or so ago one of my customers managed to get his secure CP URL into google somehow. I THINK it was through a key logger in a cafe or some such in that case but I certainly wasn't happy to hear he found his CP by typing the complete secure URL into google instead of into the browser's Location field.

I don't know if google would look at your intranet but if it has a .com domain associated with it it's quite likely. I know google picks up a new .com registration within days and goes hunting for its web site.

If you are accessing your intranet remotely using a domain name then that DNS registration is available to all and sundry. It WILL attract hackers. It was stupid of me to name a test domain on my local server, publicly accessible for remote testing, as paypal.example.com but it did prove the point. :(