November 27, 2007
A Really Inconvenient Truth
You would think the inventor of the internet would keep on up security.
A blog set up to promote former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," has been hacked and is hosting links to Web sites hawking online pharmaceuticals.Technology Posted by AlexC at November 27, 2007 5:25 PMThe links appear to have been created as part of a scheme to boost the Web traffic for sites that promote the drugs, security experts said Monday. They contain titles such as "Xanax On Line," "Viagra," and "Buy Valium Online."
Cyber scammers have been using this technique for months now, packing hacked Web sites with links to their products in hopes of bumping up their rankings on search engines such as Google and Ask.com. Another similar tactic, known as "comment spam," involves flooding the comment sections of Web sites with these types of links.
Cursed Comment Spammers! Even VP Gore does not deserve those slime!
People often ask why they have to type in the stupid password to post comments, it is to beat those execrable cretins. "Months," PCWorld? It has sadly been around a lot longer that that.
Posted by: jk at November 27, 2007 6:50 PMIt would REALLY be funny if they ran the old "Bob Dole knows about ED" ads for Viagra on the site!
Posted by: TrekMedic251 at November 27, 2007 10:43 PM | What do you think? [2]