For example, he said, Google Earth can provide spies with satellite photos of competitors' plants, and if a company includes too much information in one of its patents, Google Patent Search can be especially valuable.The warnings about Google go back even further than 2007. The tools can help the bad guys unearth financial filings and security analyst reports that are potential goldmines of information. Hackers can zero in on their prey using such tools as Google Earth, Google Patent Search and Google Blog Search, Bowers said back in 2007. It’s an old danger, one I touched on in another post last month:Ī few years ago, security expert Tom Bowers gave a talk I covered in which he demonstrated all the things you can find simply by hanging out on Google long enough: On the surface, it seems the institution failed to heed an old piece of advice I’ve heard from security practitioners over and over again: Check Google every day for anything that may be related to your organization, because you just never know what might leak from your servers to the Internet. There’s still a lot we don’t know about this case, but one has to wonder why it took so long for Yale to catch this. When Yale discovered the breach in June, it immediately took the server offline, deleted the sensitive data and evaluated whether there were any other files containing similar data on the FTP server, Peters said. But university IT officials were unaware of the change, Peters told the Daily News. In September 2010, Google made a change that allowed its search engine to index and find FTP servers.
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The embarrassing thing for Yale is that its stuff sat out in the open for 10 months before someone noticed.
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In this latest case, Google made a change that allowed it to index and find FTP servers. A couple years ago, for example, Google made an algorithm change that buried some of our content and led to a steep traffic drop off. Those of us in the online publishing business know all too well what can happen if Google makes the slightest of back-end changes. This seems to have resulted from one of the nuttiest, most random actions imaginable. The sad fact is that this could have happened to any institution. It wouldn't help the victims or change the outcome anyway. I don’t think Yale needs to be demonized over this.
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The online publication reported that Yale IT Services Director Len Peters said the FTP server holding the compromised information was used mainly for open-source materials. The breach resulted when a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server on which the data was stored became searchable via Google as the result of a change the search engine giant made last September, the Yale Daily News reported. Yale University has notified about 43,000 faculty, staff, students and alumni that their names and Social Security numbers were publicly available via Google search for about 10 months.