LastPass edits robots.txt to make support articles difficult to find

Posted by tagersenim on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:14AM
from the bleepingcomputer.com dept.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-devops-engineer-hacked-to-steal-password-vault-data-in-2022-breach/

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Re:LastPass edits robots.txt to make support articles diffic... by tagersenim on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:15AM (#34968081)

From the article:

  All of today's support bulletins are not easy to find, with none of them listed in search engines, as the company added <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> HTML tags to the document to prevent them from being indexed by search engines.

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Re:LastPass edits robots.txt to make support articles diffic... by mtmail on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:57AM (#34968332)

The submission title includes "LastPass edits robots.txt" but https://support.lastpass.com/robots.txt doesn't seem to exclude those URLs and the article doesn't mention robots.txt

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Re:LastPass edits robots.txt to make support articles diffic... by chiefalchemist on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:26AM (#34968145)

1) Presuming they're using a CMS perhaps it's an accident?

2) To clarify a bit, afaik, robots.txt is a request / suggestion, a nice to have if you will. It doesn't prevent indexing.

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