Thursday, October 30, 2008
There could be a resurgence in the number of attacks launched through Google services, one analyst has claimed.
Speaking to delegates at the RSA Europe conference, Amichai Shulman, founder and chief technical officer of Imperva, said that his firm had found a new SQL vulnerability in the Adwords service that could reveal sensitive information which could be used in pursuance of identity theft and fraud.
According to IT Pro Portal, Schulman told attendees: "This is no longer a script kiddy game; this is a business."
The issue of Google hacking came to the fore around a year ago, when criminals and researchers identified ways of loading search forms with crafted requests which could return sensitive data such as credit card details and other 'dark information.'
While Google plugged the data security vulnerabilities identified by this wave of attacks, Schulman warned that this new Adwords exploit could lead to a resurgence in the number of data security attacks launched from the search giant's services.
SC Magazine cites the Imperva founder as saying that there has been a steady escalation in the number of Google hacks seen since January this year.
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