"It's bad enough that we can browse the contents of their server, they shouldn't be vulnerable to this, " said Ryan Russell, technical editor of Securityfocus.com Inc.

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"People who use robots to search sites for information and people who run Web sites have been in a long-running war, " says Elias Levy, chief technology officer at Securityfocus.com, an Internet security firm.

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To help lead that change, in 2004 they hired Stephanie Fohn, who as chief operating officer of enterprise threat management system provider, SecurityFocus, led the company to the point that it could be sold to Symantec (SYMC) in 2002.

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