Want keep something inaccessible for the general public? Don't let search engines index it either! It's really simple and you won't piss off people.
Four fake Google haxbots hit YOUR WEBSITE every day
One in every 24 Googlebots is a imitation spam-flinging denial of service villain that masquerades as Mountain View to sneak past web perimeter defences, according to security chaps at Incapsula. Villains spawn the "evil twins" to hack and crack legitimate websites and form what amounted to the third most-popular type of DDoS …
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Friday 25th July 2014 06:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
Exactly my thoughts as well.
I run a blog that is well... not exactly about a mainstream topic. It contains my stories that all have this theme. Not Porn or even overtly sexual but it is still enough for one of the major UK ISPs to block it and not be able to supply a reason for that decision.
I keep all bots, spiders and crawlers out yet I get on average 500 hack attacks a week. The site is not known to Google, Bling etc yet still they come. sigh.
I shudder to think what it would be like if I cared about my SEO ratings and let Google index it.
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Friday 25th July 2014 16:00 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: What's the big deal?
You're right, but that's only part of the problem. What Incapsula failed to state (or wasn't quoted in the article) was the TOTAL number of requests from Google's (and Bings, etc) polling engines.
I've had sites polled by more than 4 separate googlebots in a relatively short timeframe.
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