If you do business on the web, you're probably a lot more vulnerable than you think, according to a group of hackers who released a toolbar that turns Google into an automated risk scanner that searches the web for sensitive information and points of entry for those with malicious intent.

Known as Cult of the Dead Cow, the hacker group released its Goolag Scan toolbar to highlight just how vulnerable corporations and governments are on the web.

According to a story in InfoWorld, the toolbar allows system administrators to easily harness Google's search power to scan their websites for vulnerable points.

"It's no big secret that the web is the platform, and this platform pretty much sucks from a security perspective," said CDC spokesperson Oxblood Ruffin, in a statement. "We've seen some pretty scary holes through random tests with the scanner in North America, Europe and the Middle East. If I were a government, a large corporation, or anyone with a large website, I'd be downloading this beast and aiming it at my site yesterday."

While the practice of hacking Google and using its search power to scan for vulnerabilities is nothing new, Goolag Scan represents the first time such an application has been built into a toolbar.