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Aladdin: Search Engines Contain Page-Caching Flaw

Jim Carr writes on SC Magazine US:

Researchers at Aladdin Knowledge Systems have discovered a “significant” vulnerability in the page-caching technologies of three major search engines, allowing them to deliver malicious pages that have been removed from the web.

The researchers discovered the vulnerability when analyzing the content of a hacked university website. The site was cleaned, but malicious content was still reachable via search engine caches.

The flaw is a "glimpse of the future" of multifaceted web-based attacks, said Ofer Elzam, director of product management at Aladdin.

posted by Fergie @ 12/06/2007 10:00:00 AM