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February 4, 2008
Google Alerts Can Spot Exploited Web Apps, Spam
One advantage to Google's all-seeing spiders crawling all over your stuff: They can tell you things it might be hard to spot on your own. From SANS:
"As the central information security officer, I do not have the ability to know every single PHP or cgi based program running on every web system on our campus.
"Using tools like nmap and nessus you should be able to spider your network and identify the webservers and do some level of research and keep an eye on new servers and applications. However, it would be nice to have something monitoring your websites and alerting on new pages without having pages of results of things you have already seen or dealt with.
"Google already is spidering your public hosts routinely, so why not let it do some of the leg work for you. Using Google Alerts , I have placed some alerts out to catch comment spam being added to guest books and blogs and this idea can be extended to other keywords that you need to spot check."
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