We'd like to apologize for the duplicate newsletters that many of you received last week. On this topic Newsletters Security Strategies. They will start to list all the most sensitive areas that could contain private information. While they were hoping to ensure no robot would index it, what more commonly happens is Joe Hacker will use that file as a starting point to check for sensitive information. Jason's comment is spot-on.
Many Web sites give away far too much information on their structure through carelessness.
Some do so through understandable oversights such as the one Jason explains, while other exposures come about from simple sloppiness. It is amazing how a little spidering goes a long way. Mark Gibbs is a contributing editor for the Network World reviews section. Click to Download. Harness the power of your network.