Re: [ga] Massive Number of GoDaddy WordPress Blogs Hacked

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

oye vey goy vey - what a world. this world has become very insecure and very
dependent on an even more insecure technology.

thats not good.

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

>
> All,
>
> See:
>
> https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/04/26/1527215/Massive-Number-of-GoDaddy-WordPress-Blogs-Ha
> and
>
> http://blogcastfm.com/announcements/warning-massive-number-of-godaddy-wordpress-blogs-hacked-this-weekend/
>
> A nasty little exploit has hit a large number of GoDaddy-hosted
> WordPress blogs this weekend. The best part is that the exploit only
> executes when the traffic is referred by Google, making it the sort of
> thing that site maintainers won't easily notice. Clever and devious.
>
>  It is becoming more evident as has been warned before that GoDaddy
> and the Google connection demonstrating a significant disregard for
> their customers and users privacy and security remains prevalent
> and not dealt with by ICANN, Google, nor GoDaddy.  But I suppose
> that given GoDaddy is the #1 revenue provider of ICANN's Registrars
> little by ICANN to correct this ongoing problem will be effected
> effectively, if at all...
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeffrey A. Williams
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