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Cyber criminals ride Google coattails in DDoS attacks

2014-07-28 14:09:51| InfoWorld: Top News

The easy access Google's Web crawlers have to sites is increasingly being exploited by cyber criminals in launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, a security vendor says. Fake Web crawlers accounted for 4 percent of the total number of legitimate ones, called Googlebots, analyzed by Incapsula.

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