webmasters

SQL exploit makes the rounds on the internet

Submitted by editor on April 29, 2008 - 13:16.

A large number of IIS-hosted websites are potentially vulnerable to a newly discovered SQL injection attack, report Hackademix and the Internet Storm Center. Thousands of sites have been compromised since January, mostly where web developers have failed to sanitize their user inputs properly.



Google to start tracking content "behind" web forms?

Submitted by editor on April 17, 2008 - 13:43.

According to a post in Google's Webmaster Central Blog, the company is experimenting with ways to start crawling content that is accessible via HTML forms. This will add to Google's index some of the content that was previously located in the "Deep Web," beyond the crawling capabilities of current spiders. According to estimates, tens of thousands terabytes of data are located in the Deep Web.



GoDaddy announces Webmasters Day

Submitted by editor on April 17, 2008 - 12:56.

In yet another successful publicity stunt, domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy proclaimed April 29th to be the official Webmasters Day. The day will be an occasion to celebrate the skills and efforts of people who make the WWW tick. GoDaddy's announcement is getting a fair share of coverage already, and it is likely that the new "holiday" will take off.