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Use Google Alerts to detect site hackers
lifehacker.com.au — Creating inbound links to a site remains a popular tactic -- and one that's increasingly exploited by unscrupulous site promoters who use hacking techniques potentially add invisible links to their sites onto other legitimate pages.
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- PatrickA, on 06/27/2008, -0/+8Google needs to do this for every site automatically. Being hacked sucks.
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -0/+5Great tip for when you can't monitor your site's activity 24/7
- mesarah, on 06/28/2008, -0/+4wow...this is great
- annjay, on 06/28/2008, -0/+3Yes, its an interesting tip. I may need this type of easy for my website. Thanks
- ddirba, on 06/28/2008, -0/+3Trully interesting
- maxino, on 06/28/2008, -0/+3OK, it's a good stuff, but read all what they says: "This isn't a perfect approach, and you'll need to deal with any security vulnerabilities that make such code injection possible in the first place, but it's a neat way to detect obvious attacks."
- crazymaster16, on 06/28/2008, -0/+3Hmm thats interesting
- msaleem, on 06/28/2008, -0/+5This isn't a perfect approach but is still a good option. I wish I'd known about this 8 months ago when my site was hacked.
- duckyinc, on 06/28/2008, -1/+3A bit late since your website has to be ALREADY hacked and indexed
- D14BL0, on 06/28/2008, -1/+1It's not that it's a hack to YOUR site, but it creates fake landing sites for the links in comments for other people to click on. It isn't YOU that's being hacked, but other people who visit your site.
The reason this works is because a lot of the time this happens, the comments may look like a legit commentator. But the link they enter in their URL is an attack site. You may not notice this unless you actively monitor every aspect of all of your comments (and if you have a fairly high-traffic blog or something, chances are that you don't have the time). What this trick will do is have Google actively scan your blog for all incoming links that contain certain keywords so that you can go and check the exact comment to see if it's an attack landing site or something legit.- duckyinc, on 06/28/2008, -1/+1Erm your site is HACKED not some random spam post which your readers can see (if not they deserve it), most hackers don't turn your site into a Viagra store btw
- D14BL0, on 06/28/2008, -1/+1It's not that it's a hack to YOUR site, but it creates fake landing sites for the links in comments for other people to click on. It isn't YOU that's being hacked, but other people who visit your site.
- netgeek06, on 06/28/2008, -0/+2I think the full credit should go this blog posts http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/how-to-use-google-alert ... for coming out with a great idea to figure out how to use Google alerts to catch hacker activities on your site.
- wildfire, on 06/28/2008, -0/+1More of a novelty technique since the system is already compromised.
I'd say add an intrusion prevention system (IPS), but it requires much more effort and I can't find anything that's a gateway-based web service that just inspects and routes data through to a hosting provider with an easy-to-use interface.
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