A Search Engine for the Internet’s Dirty Secrets

A Search Engine for the Internet’s Dirty Secrets

Google is helping to power a new search engine built on a daily scan of the whole Internet.

Early this week the Austrian security company SEC Consult found that more than three million routers, modems, and other devices are vulnerable to being hijacked over the Internet. Instead of giving each device a unique encryption key to secure its communications, manufacturers including Cisco and General Electric had lazily used a much smaller number of security keys over and over again.

A Search Engine for the Internet’s Dirty Secrets