On top of being framed (and yes, they’re still there), my site was recently hacked. Somehow someone managed to edit a post, adding a script and a bunch of porn keywords to two posts. And managed thereby to elevate their site to the front page of Google searches on those strings, in some cases the number one hit, so it’s clear why they did it. I found these while browsing through the search engine strings (teen porn keywords are not usually searches that find my site), found the posts and stripped out the offending divs. It’s not obvious to me how they got in, but since the WordPress development blog has been warning of security exploits, I assume it’s one of them. So I upgraded to the latest version, 2.1, and would advise anyone else running WordPress to do the same.
Between the AFF people and these hackers, I do sometimes wonder whether blogging is worthwhile for someone like me, who doesn’t blog a lot. Sort of takes the fun out of it.
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That’s why I use Blogger/Blogspot with captchas turned on. Very little comment spam.
This wasn’t comment spam. This was someone getting in and actually changing an old post to add search words (with CSS set to hidden to hide it from casual view) and a script to send viewers of those pages over to their porn site. My site came up on the front page of Google searches for those words, so from the hackers’ point of view it was worthwhile.
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