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WordPress blogs being hacked

By Kevin OKeefe

Been reading recently of problems with blogs running on WordPress software being hacked. Mike Abundo explains the hack creates spam pages within blogs and creates hidden text links to those spam pages on other blogs. A single blog can fall victim to both. Spam is bad enough on a professional blog. 'Good morning in-house counsel and consumers, here's the latest in porn for you direct from our blog.' Hidden text can be even worse as it can get you unindexed at Google. Om Malik further references the hacking and explains the hackers' motivation: To infect visitors by exploiting a browser vulnerabilityTo place ads they can then get revenue fromTo embed links to blogs they own, improving their page To entice people to click on links that lead them elsewhere And it's just not happening at small time blogs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).