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 Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:14 pm Post subject: WHID 2009-3: Google Trends Falls Victim to a Stunt |
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Source: http://www.xiom.com/whid/blog
Someone, and not for the 1st time, succeeded in manipulating Google Trends, a Google service listing popular search terms. In this case the New York Time reports that a symbol at presumably denoting 9/11 reached number 2 in the list of hot Trends (see picture right).
While this may be nothing more than a joke, the capability to create a trend can have a huge and sometimes devastating effect. After all in recent months the future of big financial institutes was determined by the rumor mill.
On the technical side, insufficient anti-automation controls have been one of the more obscure and hardest to fix vulnerabilities in web applications. Starting with the Lexis-Nexis incident (WHID 2005-65), many incidents where waved off as nothing more than an automated client. However, as the incidents pile it becomes clear that it is the responsibility of the site owner to mitigate such harmful automation attacks. |
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