Technorati notice I received

Apr 08, 2008 in Updates

Just got this on an older blog that I have been ignoring but thought it was important to add the update here.

Blogs are being compromised via this vulnerability on widespread scale.
The most common symptom of a compromised blog is the presence of links
to spam web sites inserted in the blog that are obscured by style
attributes that render the text invisible but are still seen by crawlers
such as Technorati’s, Google’s and Yahoo’s. You can find these links
by viewing the source of the blog pages or, when using Firefox,
looking under “Tools” -> “Page Info” -> “Links”

The impact of these spam links that may be unwittingly placed on your
blog are reduced rankings or being flagged as spam. We’re
discontinuing processing updates from blogs that exhibit symptoms
of being compromised. If your blog has been upgraded already and this
message no longer applies to you, please accept my apologies.

Just a quick FYI for you and I am liking the 2.5 upgrade so far.

Mike Paetzold

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4 comments

rosie on April 8, 2008 at 9:06 pm

Thanks Mike. Would love to hear more about this and how we can protect our blogs. What suggestions do you have?

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Hal on April 8, 2008 at 9:36 pm

Dear Mike,

With some trepidation I followed your advise and by the skin of my fingers just managed to upload WP 2.5 in good order.
I have even manged to add a couple of plug ins and I used an automated plug in feature that was being touted by WP successfully.

Now how can we navigate efficiently around this new territory?

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Hal on April 8, 2008 at 9:41 pm

Hi Mike,

One more addition to my comment above.

I joined the WP forums and spent some time tooling around dipping in to various topics.
Which forum topics do you find the most salient?

Best,

Hal

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Mike on April 10, 2008 at 3:43 pm

Well bit by bit I have been adding some videos here and at You Tube on the new systems.

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