RE: Website search engine is a hacking tool..

From: Vinicius Moreira Mello (vinicius_at_lineone.net)
Date: 07/30/04

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To: pen-test@securityfocus.com

    Hi,

    >-- Original Message --
    >Subject: RE: Website search engine is a hacking tool..
    >From: Amal Mohammad Al Hajeri <amal@nis.etisalat.ae>
    >
    > and how can we mitigate the risk of using such techniques? did anyone
    succeed in using
    >the local search engine as a proxy to attack other targets?

    Try disabling indexing (apache: Option -Indexes) for as much directories
    as possible and not using/protecting critical files under the webserver
    (ch)root diretory.

    Regards,
    vmm.

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