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Realtor.com Blog Hacked

By Trace Richardson
Published June 4th, 2008

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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 would have contacted “RDC Blogger” but they have no contact form. I shot one of the featured bloggers a short email from the email I found on their home blog.

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Trace Richardson is the founder of LeadPress and an entrepreneur and consultant specializing in technology, web design and lead generation. He is a licensed California Real Estate broker and a former equities trader previously holding the Series 7, 63, 55 and 24 securities licenses.

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