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Security experts are predicting a massive increase this year in so-called "Google hacking", where malicious Internet users or worms use the search engine to discover resources that are not intended for public consumption.Last year two high profile worms used Google and other search engines to find potential targets. In August, a MyDoom variant used Google to find email addresses and a few months later the Santy worm found vulnerable bulletin board applications using various search engines. Security experts expect to see a lot more this year and advise enterprises to minimise their exposure to such attacks.
[news.zdnet.co.uk...]
A tough year ahead for Google!
All that means is that Google is so good that it finds things on the web better than other search engines do(which is changing, but that's another story...).
"where malicious Internet users or worms use the search engine to discover resources that are not intended for public consumption."
False. Google doesn't invade anyone's PC's or servers and pulls out things that are not intended for public use. It only finds pages that are already avaluable to the public if you know where to look.
