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Google Confirms Robots.txt Can’t Prevent Unauthorized Access

August 2, 2024 by Roger Montti

Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed a common observation that robots.txt has limited control over unauthorized access by crawlers. Gary then offered an overview of access controls that all SEOs and website owners should know. Common Argument About Robots.txt Seems like any time the topic of Robots.txt comes up there’s always that one person who has to … Read more

Unauthorized access to some Buffer accounts has been resolved, here’s what happened

March 18, 2022 by admin

On February 26th, our team became aware that access was obtained to a number of Buffer accounts and those accounts were used to spread support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The accounts affected did not have two factor authentication (2FA) enabled, indicating that this was likely related to reused passwords as there continues to be … Read more

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