Finally, we also investigated the structural properties of malware distribution sites. Some malware distribution sites had as many as 21,000 regular web sites pointing to them. We also found that the majority of malware was hosted on web servers located in China. Interestingly, Chinese malware distribution sites are mostly pointed to by Chinese web servers.
Anyone who visited the Independent Bloghorn, on the night of February 3, would have briefly seen my post, Gambler in Chief, then they would have been promptly redirected to a site full of Chinese crap. Luckily I back up my blog, so most of my content was saved. Recent comments from some of my latest posts were lost, so sorry to those who commented, but other than that, I am back up and running.
It is pretty big news lately that the Chinese government sponsored a hack job on Google’s servers, and Google is threatening to pull out of China. In addition to this, Google hacked China back and discovered that this cyber attack targeted many major American corporations. I see the Independent Bloghorn hack as a small attack in a larger war. In this war, I am on Team Google, and at this point I say screw China. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings at all to see the following actions take place.
1. To see Google, Adobe, Yahoo, Symantec, and the other companies that were hacked boycott China completely.
2. To see individual American consumers boycott Chinese goods. This probably sounds hypocritical, given my typical attitudes toward free markets. However, I think that getting to participate in free markets is a privilege that China isn’t worthy of. It will probably be impossible to do this completely, but from now on, “Made in China” doesn’t make it to my house.
3. To see the Federal Government turn over its land holdings in the West back to the states. This will open them for a boom in energy exploration. We will use the money from this effort to pay off the debt to China (only $800 billion at this piont), and reduce our trade deficit. That is the only leverage they have, so let’s get rid of it.
4. To see the capital gains tax lowered to zero. I would like to see as much of the investment capital in the global financial system absorbed as quickly as possible into the American economy.
5. Place tariffs on Chinese imports, and use the money to pay off our debt to them. That’s what they get for borrowing against the future value of their currency to create false economic growth.
6. Dramatically lower tariffs for goods from other Asian countries, South American countries, and India.
Yeah right, like any of that will happen. I’m just venting, cause I’m mad they hacked my blog. Hopefully Google takes them out.
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That is crazy. I noticed someone had created a hidden user on my blog about 6 months ago. I managed to remove the file but this might be how they got you. A few people I know got hit with this. For example, on WP, it might show 5 users but there is really a 6th and they are hidden with admin rights. Might want to check this.
I guess keeping your version of wordpress and plugins current helps too. I guess I need to stop being lazy about that stuff.
A current version of WordPress will help. Check how many users you have and make sure nobody can register.
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I did check that, and there was a phantom user in there. I deleted it. I do have my settings so nobody can register, however, you can register as a subscriber. My advice to other bloggers: back-up often your database and blog.
Thanks for the advise Burro and Harrison. I would hate to have my blogged hacked. I do back everything up once a week but I’ll start checking for phantom users too.
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What allow people to register as a subscriber? Looks like you run Feedburner and this should be the only kind of subscriber you need except for registering to be emailed if someone replies to one of your comments.
When did you discover this phantom user?
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I have the subscribe 2 plugin installed. It isn’t that great. I discovered the user after you told to go look there. On second thought, you seem to know a lot about this. Are you Chinese?
You should not need any subscribe plug-ins. You already use Feedburner so simply placing a link to their email subscriber page will be all you need.
If I were Chinese why would I tell you to look for a hidden subscriber?
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I started using subscribe2 before I found feedburner. I should just get rid of it.
So you are a double agent.
Why stop at double?
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Oh man, that is way crazy. Azn’s hacked my blog one time too. This is just further proof that the Chinese are dicks.
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