Comments on: Hey You! Your Blog Has Been Hacked!

By: Blatant Content Plagiarism - Am I To Thank You?

Blatant Content Plagiarism - Am I To Thank You? — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:51:31 +0000

[…] all “friends” and “friendly communities”. It’s the world of bad guys hacking good guys and blatant thieves stealing the […]

By: Ken - Hoobin.com

Ken - Hoobin.com — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:18:26 +0000

Spam hacking really cost me greatly recently, it’s happen when I was on vacation, and my site is being shutdown by my webhosting company for the last 5 days and lost some of my SERP in google due to high bounce rate. The only loophole is my contact form allow injection to send out Massive Spam Mail, duh!

By: Gary M

Gary M — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:19:43 +0000

Wow, thanks to folks like you we found and fixed the hack access. Amazing how you can be so vulnerable, without even knowing! Thanks again. Gary for AvantLink.

By: Joost

Joost — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:13:23 +0000

A few weeks ago we found out that the site of a friend of ours was hacked in the same way as is mentioned on the earnersblog.
We found out because it featured the text of the links in their description in Google’s serps (no other machine-readable content on the homepage)…..
You really need to keep checking 24/7!

By: Badi Jones

Badi Jones — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:05:02 +0000

My wordpress blog was hacked recently. I think it was due to a couple of things, the main one being that I neglected to keep my WP install up to date.

I think the other was that by default, dreamhost isn’t very secure.

The hacker was able to upload some insane php script that had access to everything on the site.

Learned my lesson though.

By: onreact

onreact — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:45:11 +0000

Hello John Mu, thanks for dropping by. It’s really scary. If you develop an easy method to scan it you’ll get quite popular I guess. It certainly surpassess the attack described above.

david: That’s why I never would post pictures of my children online or give away private info like where you are now on Twitter. Any madman can read it and use it against you. If you check your referers closely you know how many madmen are out there.

Bradley: You’re welcome. nice to see that the post had some impact. You might also want to warn others perhaps…

Sophie, right, the obvious hacks seem pretty by now.

John Moltz: You might want to screen some of these pages:
http://www.google.de/search?q=site:www.crazyapplerumors.com+viagra

I couldn’t see much, but on some you have plain spam comments polluting your site.

By: John Moltz

John Moltz — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:13:22 +0000

That’s funny because I actually realized I was hacked last night. Actually, I probably only took note of your trackback because I knew that, yes, I was hacked. Boy was I pissed. I was about to go to bed and then had to spend 45 minutes figuring out how to get rid of it. I’m still not sure I did the right thing because I just removed the call to the offending code, not the offending code itself. I haven’t found it yet. Still looking.

Bastards.

Thanks, though.

By: Irritable Sophie

Irritable Sophie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:16:08 +0000

Wow, that really is scary. I’d much rather be hacked with a huge sign on the site saying “You have been hacked you moron” rather than this cloak and dagger stuff going on…

By: Bradley Horowitz

Bradley Horowitz — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:09:35 +0000

Yep, thanks. Fixed.

By: david deangelo

david deangelo — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:02:19 +0000

Very shady people operating on the net. Have to be careful.