November 27th, 2007
An Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore’s Blog Gets Hacked
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
This’ll teach Al to post more often, I guess (his last blog post at the time of this writing was late 2006). As Al Gore was meeting with President Bush yesterday, in the tradition of American Nobel Prize winners getting a photo-op with the Prez, it was revealed that the blog on Gore’s site, ClimateCrisis.net, has been hacked.
It looks, as far as I can tell, like just the blog section has been hacked. However, looking at it, a user couldn’t see a difference — unless they looked at the source code (above).
We Say: Obviously hackers got in through a hole and hacked the source. But invisible, what good is it? Well, for one thing, hidden like that, it’ll take some time for people to catch it (hello, Webmaster, that hack is still there!). But the important thing for the hackers is that a search engine like Google will pick up the links as they crawl the site. And, since Gore’s site has such a high PageRank, Google will rank the links higher.
Of course, no one really searches for Nexium or Cialis online anyway, do they? 
Bill says:
But, but, he had a consensus of scientists who all agreed he didn’t have to upgrade his wordpress site.
Anyone who insisted he upgrade were obviously in the pocket of Big WordPress.
November 28th, 2007 at 11:02 am
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November 28th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Nick Dalton says:
There is actually a visible part of this attack. Not only did the attackers add spam links to climatecrisis.net (and many other sites), they also added a block of AdSense ads.
See http://www.TipsTricksToolsTechniques.com/?p=85 for more analysis of this attack.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:36 am
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November 29th, 2007 at 11:35 pm