April 11, 2010 in Make money by admin
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 Since some days a rather nasty hack has been going round in the WordPress community. I actually noticed it myself not that long when I googled for ‘Chris Pearson‘ and what I saw in the results was… shall we say ‘interesting’?
Prozac, Levitra, Lexapro? Had Chris sold the ‘Best Damn Blog on the Planet’, AKA Pearsonified? I went to check out Chris’ blog but no. No Prozac, Levitra or anything else of suspicious nature to be found there. Just your regular well-tuned Pearson content. I even looked in the source code and a quick search for known brands ended empty. I left again, having long forgotten already why I googled Chris in the first place.
Now it seems though that this hack is making the rounds and becoming more and more popular. Leland Fiegel from Themelab first reported about it on first reported about it on the Themelab blog, more than a month ago already. Afterwards the issue was covered over at the WP Tavern forums but no solution has been found so far. Even the WordPress Lead Developer, Mark Jaquith, is left clueless and hopes to solve the issue ASAP.
@Skitzzo if someone has actionable security info, they should notify us. If the hackers got in via WP, the access log should have info. [Mark Jaquith on Twitter]
But the hack continues to grow, infecting more and more blogs. On thousands of blogs.
How can you recognise whether your blog is affected?
One option is to wait for Google to cache your content. Did I say before that Yahoo is also targeted with this cloak hack? If I hadn’t so far, I just did.
The other, and faster, way is to use Google’s own Fetch as Googlebot tool. This tool allows you to view how the Google crawlers see your site. Your site must therefor be added to your Google Webmaster Tools account and then you can find it under Labs for every site. In the video below, by Leland Fiegel from Themelab, you can see what the hack does to infected sites.
Read more about the hack at WPBlogger.
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March 17, 2010 in Make money by admin
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 As this post goes live I’ll be in the process of arriving at SXSW Interactive in Austin Texas.
I was fortunate enough to at SXSWi two years back and it was one of the best conference experiences that I’ve had – so I’ve made it a priority this year to return.
My schedule is pretty open. The main thing that I’ll be doing is a book reading this Friday night. I’ll be talking about some of what Chris and I have included in the 2nd edition of the ProBlogger book (due out next month).
The book reading is on at 5pm, Friday 12 March on the Day Stage. I hope you’ll come!
For those of you involved in the Third Tribe there is a drinks/meetup the next evening (on Saturday 13th from about 5.30pm) at a bar called ‘Lovejoys’ at 604 Neches Street (2 blocks north of the convention center).
Note: I originally thought that my reading was on Saturday and we’d do one after the other…. but I messed up the time so the book reading is Friday and the Drinks/Meetup is Saturday. Sorry for the messing around 3rd Tribers.
Other than that I’ve got a pretty open few days and am looking forward to checking out a few panels and keynotes and doing as much networking as possible. If you’re at SXSWi I’d love to meet you – feel free to come up and say hi any time!
Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.
Let’s Meet at SXSWi!
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