Colombia Journal Hacked – Google News Spammed

Yup. While I was idly looking around to see if I ranked anywhere for tube8.com on the back of some traffic that wended its way here, I noticed the following results cropping up in Google News. Now clearly, the actual Colombia Journal isn’t serving up auto-generated content like this…

Whoops!

Whoops!

And if you do click through you get to a page like this….

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So someone’s hacked Colombia Journal. If it uses WordPress, that in itself is no surprise (there’s a tonne of WordPress exploits) but it is surprising that Google hasn’t picked up on this to say the least. I guess some enterprising spammers are rubbing their hands at the prospect of some opportunities to try and realise a free buck or two.

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4 Responses to Colombia Journal Hacked – Google News Spammed

  1. James says:

    It does look like they’re using WordPress. 2.7.

    Colour me entirely unsurprised.

  2. dan says:

    Where is my google wave invite?

  3. Carps says:

    There are no prizes for mere persistence, Dan!

  4. Louise says:

    nice post. I would love to follow you on twitter. By the way, did you know that some Iranian hacker had hacked twitter yesterday.
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