{"id":189,"date":"2007-02-08T15:42:02","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T23:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/archives\/2007\/02\/08\/hacked\/"},"modified":"2007-09-30T11:34:10","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T18:34:10","slug":"hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/02\/hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On top of being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2006\/12\/framed\/\" title=\"post about being framed\">framed<\/a> (and yes, they\u2019re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/01\/theyre-back\/\" title=\"still framed\">still there<\/a>), my site was recently hacked. Some\u00adhow someone man\u00adaged to edit a post, adding a script and a bunch of porn keywords to two posts. And man\u00adaged thereby to elev\u00adate their site to the front page of Google searches on those strings, in some cases the num\u00adber one hit, so it\u2019s clear why they did it. I found these while brows\u00ading through the search engine strings (teen porn keywords are not usu\u00adally searches that find my site), found the posts and stripped out the offend\u00ading divs. It\u2019s not obvi\u00adous to me how they got in, but since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\/\">Word\u00adPress<\/a> devel\u00adop\u00adment blog has been warn\u00ading of secur\u00adity exploits, I assume it\u2019s one of them. So I upgraded to the latest ver\u00adsion, 2.1, and would advise any\u00adone else run\u00adning Word\u00adPress to do the&nbsp;same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Between the <span class=\"caps\">AFF<\/span> people and these hack\u00aders, I do some\u00adtimes won\u00adder wheth\u00ader blog\u00adging is worth\u00adwhile for someone like me, who does\u00adn\u2019t blog a lot. Sort of takes the fun out of&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On top of being framed (and yes, they\u2019re still there), my site was recently hacked. Some\u00adhow someone man\u00adaged to edit a post, adding a script and a bunch of porn keywords to two posts. And man\u00adaged thereby to elev\u00adate their site to the front page of Google searches on those strings, in some cases the \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/02\/hacked\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cHacked!\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wp-mechanics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}