By Trace Richardson
Published June 7th, 2008
(Previous Realtor.com coverage - Realtor.com Hacked Day 1 / Realtor.com Hacked Day 2 / Realtor.com Hacked Day 3 )
In an unfortunate turn of events, Realtor.com has failed to acknowledge its website and or servers were breached and has failed to inform users whether or not personal data was compromised. This is disturbing on a number [...]
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By Trace Richardson
Published June 6th, 2008
(Previous Realtor.com coverage - Realtor.com Hacked Day 1 / Realtor.com Hacked Day 2)
At around 7 PM last night the Realtor.com Blog was taken offline. 17 hours later and counting, they are still down. The speculation is that a wordpress plugin was at fault, but that remains to be seen.
We are still scratching our heads over [...]
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By Trace Richardson
Published June 5th, 2008
For the second day in a row, Realtor.com has failed to secure their website after it was hacked as we reported yesterday. Their failure to secure Realtor.com can have many implications, depending on how badly the site has been compromised. These range from the possible exposure of user’s personal data to the very real possibility [...]
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By Trace Richardson
Published June 4th, 2008
As I was browing through my feeds this morning I came across the following feed (original post here) that has had spam injected into it. The spam shows up in the original post source code but is not displayed in because of the use of the “style=display:hidden” tag, a common tactic by hackers. I [...]
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Tags: Realtors