[TriLUG] Security holes. Revealed by searching yahoo and google

[erik at underhanded.org]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:31:50PM -0500, Mike Fieschko wrote:
> Misconfigured MySQL servers accessible though phpmyadmin:
> 
> http://www.threadwatch.org/node/1082
> 
> [begin quoting]
> 
> Hot on the heals of the recent Google unsecured Webcams search news
> comes in via rumours at threadwatch.org of an even more serious security
> breach made available by search engine queries. 

Yeah, there's quite a few more interesting searches here:
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews

And the whole webcam thing started with a thread on somethingawful.com
when people looked at the above site, and quickly started finding as 
many webcams as possible.  (which was then subsequently leaked to
boingboing and then to slashdot)  Fun fun!
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