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July 20, 2011 04:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Xh8vvGBYHXQ/Google-Plugs-Hole-That-Lets-You-Remove-Any-Website
Google Plugs Hole That Lets You Remove Any Website
blowdart writes "Google today disabled their webmaster tools after it was discovered that anyone could use the tool to remove any site from the google index. The exploit was pretty simple, all anyone had to do was to have a google webmasters tool account and edit a query string parameter on a valid removal to point to a domain they didn't own!"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Xh8vvGBYHXQ/Google-Plugs-Hole-That-Lets-You-Remove-Any-Website
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