SEO Rockstars Website Hacked
By Benj Arriola - Posted on Sat Sep 16, 2006
If you are an SEO and does not know about the SEO Rockstars, that is like saying you do not know about SEW and SERountable and all the other good blogs as well. Good forums like WebmasterWorld and DitigalPoint are like staple information sources. Although the SEO Rockstars, aside from the live radio shows and podcast, they actually have a blog with nothing much on it for quite some time. And the SEO Rockstars blog had just recently added some new bloggers last last September 7, 2006 and some new SEO content has been going up there since then. And on September 12, 2006, the SEO Rockstars blog was hacked. Thanks to Todd ‘Oilman’ Freisen, for the screenshot of the hacked website. I believe also within the same day, the site was restored to normal.
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September 16th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
[...] Occured last September 12, 2006, the SEO Rockstars blog was hacked! Stuff like this happen when people want their permalinks changeable through the Wordpress admin and keeps their .htaccess file permissions writable by Wordpress. Now if there is a way Wordpress can overwrite .htaccess, then how can you control Wordpress to post something on .htaccess. I myself do not know all the details, but I do know you have entry points in the Wordpress comments, the trackback, the login boxes, I really do not know. But a good precaution how to avoid Wordpress hacking through this method of hacking where the .htaccess file is hacked, make sure the file permissions of the files are not left as 777, or meaning, read, write, execute by owner, user and group. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]