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Google Blog Has A Rough Weekend
David Utter
Staff Writer
2006-10-09
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A strangely worded post that appeared on Google's official blog over the weekend proved to be a hack, and the company took it down a few hours later.
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Even though the Blogger service is just one part of Google, the Case of the Blogger Hack showed that even the brainpower at Google can be flummoxed, if only for a few hours, by a determined attacker.
On Saturday, someone posted a notice on the Official Google Blog that Google's partnership with eBay over click-to-call development had come to an end. Although the post has been removed, we grabbed a copy of the text:
After concientiously considering, Google has decided not to continue with Google Click-to-call project. The project has been in the media on last days because of the notice of Google agreement with e-Bay. We finally consider click-to-call agreement with e-Bay a monopolistic aproach that would damage small companies in the CRM area.
Below that paragraph, a sentence reading, "This message has been translated using Google language tools" appeared.
Google's Karen Wickre later placed a post on the Google blog that acknowledged the hack had been due to a bug in Blogger. That bug has been squashed and the offending post removed.
No other details have been forthcoming, and they probably will not be, either, as Google will not want to make it any easier for someone else to try this again. That leaves the comment about Google's language tools to consider.
That could have been a blind, to misdirect security types to look in the wrong place for the problem and buy some time. Some people do use Google's web page translation as a proxy to view sites that would normally be blocked by a security filter, but how that could lead to posting as an unauthorized user on the Google blog is anyone's guess.
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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