Comment on Palo Alto Networks confirms mystery zero day now exploited

• VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re saying who they are, what they do, and are linking to their website and sometimes sends hundreds of requests in a minute. It might not say "For only €49.99 you can get your very own thing!”, but that does not mean they aren’t throwing their name up in every website owner’s arse whether they like it or not.

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  • TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s so you know who is scanning you.

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    • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That could have been done by just having a single entry called GoogleBot or BingBot, not an entire sentence explaining their product offering let alone hundreds of times a minute.

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