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Is my advice if you’d like to keep from getting hacked. Just wanted to say a quick thanks to all the folks who took the time to let me know there was a problem (and to Mike for helping me get up and running quickly - it probably would have taken me weeks). To the folks who thought it was linkbait, I can appreciate skepticism, but you might want to tip your BS meters a bit further back towards “faith in humanity” - life is more enjoyable that way. Ironically enough, I was having lunch with Michael Gray when I got the news, so I’ll let him tell the story (or you can check out the blow-by-blow at threadwatch, so I can get back to work:)
19 Comments
Karl Ribas
January 16th, 2007,
4:28 pm
Glad to hear that you’re site’s back up and running!
Simon Heseltine
January 16th, 2007,
4:36 pm
Grats on getting back up so quickly.
Andy Beal
January 16th, 2007,
4:47 pm
Was a crappy thing to happen to you and Michael. It had me panicking and upgrading. Glad to see you’re back up!
David
January 16th, 2007,
5:23 pm
Good to see you back. That punk sure is causing alot of trouble. I saw talk about his .wordpress.com blog (which is down now)on thread watch but has everyone see his .blogspot.com blog? If not you can check it out here
http://fuckingpirate.blogspot.com/
Is google going to ban him like wordpress did? I hope so. I am assuming that someone has already reported it but maybe I will let google know just in case.
Lyndoman
January 16th, 2007,
5:35 pm
Good to see you back.
Chris Winfield
January 16th, 2007,
6:03 pm
Good to have you back online Todd and good seeing you last night.
Dean
January 16th, 2007,
6:14 pm
Hey Mike is supposed to be working on my project! lol. Glad your site is back
Brian Mark
January 16th, 2007,
6:45 pm
Yeah, it was pretty freaky. The referrals from your site to mine dropped like a rock.
Aaron Nimocks
January 16th, 2007,
9:12 pm
Welcome back! Glad to see it didnt do too much damage. Guess I should go upgrade now.
kid disco
January 16th, 2007,
10:02 pm
Dude, that was crazy stuff. Glad to see you got everything worked out, though!
Tech Mentat
January 17th, 2007,
2:55 am
Just wanted to say that I am glad to see you and Gray back up and running. Glad no one else got run over.
Brian’s Business Blog » A Public Apology for Michael Gray and Todd Malicoat
January 17th, 2007,
5:45 am
[...] My comments at Threadwatch could be read as questioning the character and professionalism of both Michael Gray and Todd Malicoat. [...]
seo practices
January 17th, 2007,
11:31 am
I’m glad you were able to solve the problem fast, your blog is of valuable information for the SEO world, keep up with the good information.
Dave White
January 18th, 2007,
12:58 pm
Good that you have posted regarding this thing for others to beware about it.Thanks.
Expert Search Engine Optimization » Blog Archive » 6 Reasons Why You Should Keep Your Blog Software Updated
January 19th, 2007,
12:46 am
[...] Security. Much like web browsers, hackers are always looking for a way in. Keeping up to date on the latest software will help protect you from those that seem to have to much time on their hands. [...]
SEOdisco | Sorry About the Slow Posting
January 22nd, 2007,
2:17 pm
[...] Due to the recent hacking spree going on, I upgraded to the latest release of WordPress… even before Todd did. Unfortunately, while I may have prevented my site from being hacked, I must’ve messed something up and ended up losing some functionality in the back-end. [...]
SEO Blog | Search Engine Optimization | Social Media Marketing » Stop just ‘reading’ these “blogging tips” and put them into action!
January 24th, 2007,
7:19 pm
[...] Upgrade your software … or else! If you are using free blogging software/programs such as WordPress make sure you are using the latest version. (Just got done with the upgrade last night and it was painless). [...]
Stop just ‘reading’ these “blogging tips” and put them into action!
July 30th, 2007,
12:20 pm
[...] Upgrade your software … or else! If you are using free blogging software/programs such as WordPress make sure you are using the latest version. (Just got done with the upgrade last night and it was painless). [...]
SEO Community Hacked: What Positives Can Come From It? | TheVanBlog
January 29th, 2008,
2:16 am
[...] First a little background on what happened. Sometime early yesterday afternoon where I sit in Colorado I was on Todd Malicoat’s Stundubl site. One moment all was fine and the next the site wasn’t looking right. I thought it was just a missing css file, but a few refreshes later it was obvious something more was happening. Every link was redirecting to a blog on WordPress by someone claiming to be f***pirate. [...]