By Trace Richardson
Published December 2nd, 2011
There are a number of pitfalls that sellers fall into when they are putting their homes on the market. Going into the process with the wrong attitude can mean that your house sits on the market for many weeks unsold or that you are unable to get a good price for your home. You don’t [...]
Tags: Home Sales, Realtors, selling your home
By Trace Richardson
Published June 21st, 2008
Redfin suffered about the worst occurrence a datacenter can endure, fire. They still beat Realtor.com by 12 hours with only 5 hours of downtime compared to Realtor.com’s 17 hours of downtime or 53 hours of downtime if you include the 36 hours of in-action before going offline for 17 hours after their blog was hacked. [...]
Tags: NAR, National Association of Realtors, realtor, Realtors, redfin
By Trace Richardson
Published June 20th, 2008
BrokerScience is not affiliated, related or endorsed in any way, shape or form to or by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). You can find the National Association of Realtors at Realtor.org. If you are interested in Real Estate and Mortgage news, you’re in the right place, take a look around!
Tags: BrokerScience, NAR, Realtors
By Trace Richardson
Published June 11th, 2008
Once daily posts halted for a week. 36 hour delay in acknowledging hack. 19 hours of downtime. No communication with the Realtor community as to whether their personal data was compromised or even an acknowledgment that the site was even hacked. Previous Coverage: It all started here.
Tags: NAR, National Association of Realtors, Realtors
By Trace Richardson
Published June 10th, 2008
For the seventh day in a row Realtor.com is failing to communicate with its community regarding the hack that we first reported on June 4th. Realtor.com is approaching one week with no blog posts, no communication with its paid users and increasing doubt in its ability to run a blog, let alone one of the [...]
Tags: NAR, National Association of Realtors, Realtors
By Trace Richardson
Published June 8th, 2008
The original posts that had spam injected to them have been removed. The daily blog posts have halted and communication about the situation is non-existent. This is turning uglier by the minute. Where is Blaine Cooke when you need him? {sarcasm}
Tags: NAR, National Association of Realtors, Realtors
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 [...]
Tags: hacked, NAR, Realtors
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 [...]
Tags: NAR, National Association of Realtors, Realtors
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 [...]
Tags: hacked, NAR, Realtors
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 would [...]
Tags: NAR, Realtors