Comments on: Is your WordPress Installation Compromised? Al Gore’s is.

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6 Signs Your Web Hosting Company Sucks — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:14:27 +0000

[...] They might be defaced, used to host phishing sites, send spam or attack other servers. It’s a nightmare scenario for many website [...]

By: WordPress Tip: How to secure your installation | Out:think

WordPress Tip: How to secure your installation | Out:think — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:47:58 +0000

[...] While there are plenty of things that hackers can do when they gain control to your site, those are the most common ones I’ve seen. So how can you possibly defend against these attacks when even Al Gore’s site is getting hacked? [...]

By: Wordpress Cloaking Exploit – Hidden Footer Links

Wordpress Cloaking Exploit – Hidden Footer Links — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:43:45 +0000

[...] Problem betroffen sind. Hintergrund dieses Angriffes, der in der abgeschwächten Version schon Al Gore zum Opfer gefallen ist, kostenlos und hinterlistig an One Way Backlinks zu kommen. Wie allen [...]

By: Roba Al-Assi

Roba Al-Assi — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:24:40 +0000

I have that problem, but it also made all my FTP files unwritable, so I can’t remove the code, or clean it up, or even update my wordpress installation. Is there a way to make them writable again?

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Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:37:49 +0000

[...] it’s ability. For those that still just think this is no big deal here is a few links for you.. Al Gore’s Blog Hacked | WordPress Hacked My WordPress hacked by c99madshell script Lee Kelleher’s Weblog For those of you that dont [...]

By: Finechinagirl

Finechinagirl — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:17:32 +0000

Apparently my site was hacked. Similiar code, not sure if it was the same but basically the same. There was a hidden viagra ad near the footer. I had to restore all files to make sure none of the malicious code was there.

By: Ranked Hard

Ranked Hard — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:29:08 +0000

Here is a nice security scan plugin for WordPress:

http://semperfiwebdesign.com/plugins/wp-security-scan/

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LucroNet, LLC. » Blog Archive » 2.3.1 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:03:42 +0000

[...] No, that’s not me miscounting, just an update to the software so we’re not vulnerable to the Al Gore Spamming Problem. [...]

By: ramesh

ramesh — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:40:25 +0000

I really suffered a lot. Couple of my high ranking blogs was hacked with spammy footer links. When i notice the links, the first portion of the urls showing some legitimate sites but this links going to 404 pages of the sites, and the links with irrelevant anchor text. I think the main idea of hacking is to disturb the trust of the site and SERPs of the blog. I am using paid verion of semiologic them, but i still couldn’t find how to protect my sites.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:17:32 +0000

wow, that bites!

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links for 2008-05-20 — contentious.com — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:24:36 +0000

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Fri, 09 May 2008 04:36:20 +0000

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By: How Wordpress Blogs Are Hacked | BPWrap

How Wordpress Blogs Are Hacked | BPWrap — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:10:51 +0000

[...] Is your WordPress Installation Compromised? Al Gore’s is – by Stuart McKeown (12. Nov 2007) [...]

By: nishu

nishu — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:22:59 +0000

check not only for div tags
but also for links which merges with background, which are embedded in noscript or have invisible images links.

By: Wordpress Blog Hacked | BPWrap

Wordpress Blog Hacked | BPWrap — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:26:58 +0000

[...] on April 1, 2007. That was a spoof but since then there have been many real hacking incidents. Al Gore’s blog was, according to Stuart McKeown, as was the WordPress blog of Matt Heaton (Bluehost and Hostmonster [...]

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:06:39 +0000

Got bit by this one myself, but its actually not the theme files that are compromised; its the index.php file in the main directory of your WordPress install thats comprised. That may be more of a server security issue than a WordPress issue.

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Reading list, Virtual online worlds and MMOGs — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:33:20 +0000

[...] much blogging lately as i’ve been struggling with my spam issue for several months. At least i’m not alone with this particular problem but having to wade through instructions to harden WordPress and worry [...]

By: NewsFilter » ????? “??????” ?? theme ??? ??????????????;

NewsFilter » ????? “??????” ?? theme ??? ??????????????; — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:16:25 +0000

[...] ?????? ? ?????????? ??? monkey-theme ???? ??????? ?????? “backlinks” ???? ??? ??????? ? ?? ???????? ??? ????? ?… (??? ???? ?? ??????????, ???? ???? ????? ???? ???????). [...]

By: _-GORO-_

_-GORO-_ — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:47:06 +0000

People who post comments on PC World know nothing about SEO. Neither know how to protect sites. All they can do is talk but once it come to real protection – they are useless. Bottomeaters.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:32:39 +0000

LoL looks like his footers been hacked again.

Im not gonna paste it all here. but theres the div tag again. if you wanna see for yourself check the source, now its pointing to howardowens dot com.

By: Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Wordpress footer follies

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:19:56 +0000

[...] (I’ve already gotten email from a couple of other users who are battling the same problem. Al Gore, apparently, went through something [...]

By: drmike

drmike — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:59:20 +0000

It’s been commented elsewhere (I won’t give the idiot a link since he didn’t do the same to you) that the site in question is still running wp 2.0.4 which is very much out of date. At least a year.

By: Extraordinary

Extraordinary — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:50:45 +0000

Try switching providers or witholding payment ’til they explain why it’s happening?

By: fastrealestate

fastrealestate — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:34:28 +0000

I have one blog that gets hacked every single day, I have to keep overwriting the files to sort it out – My host is not able to sort it out to date. I think they have security holes. I’ve upgraded to the latest verion of WP. Not sure what to do next.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:35:21 +0000

Hey Rich, thanks for the comment. I’m not too worried about the story being Dugg, I’m more annoyed that the story has now gone mainstream & these bigger blogs are getting the credit for plagiarism (with some “expert opinions” thrown in).

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:02:10 +0000

Its unfortunate that PC World is at 710 Diggs and you are sitting at 9 Digs as the original author – or at least according to the post on their site. At least you got the first post with a link back.

By: Sean O

Sean O — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:25:33 +0000

Obviously, Mr. Gore did not spend enough time checking the security settings of his WordPress blog. Not surprising since he didn’t spend enough time checking the facts for his movie.

By: Ernie Oporto

Ernie Oporto — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:15:59 +0000

So had WordPress been patched against whatever hack they’re using?

By: Don’t Get Hacked Like Al Gore - Keep An Eye On WordPress

Don’t Get Hacked Like Al Gore - Keep An Eye On WordPress — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:07:25 +0000

[...] been making the news today about Al Gore’s web site being hacked. (Original story broken by Stuart @ Earners Blog.) Actually it was a blog on climatecrisis.net that appears to have been forgotten – the last post [...]

By: Living Off Dividends

Living Off Dividends — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:59:58 +0000

serves him right for inventing the damn thing