Comments on: Introduction to Website Parasites

By: StopBadware.org - "Canonical" hacks

StopBadware.org - "Canonical" hacks — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:50:09 +0000

[...] Effectively, this way hackers can hijack search results of a legitimate web site. Now bad-site.com has all the search traffic of good-hacked-site.com, and good-hacked-site.com is no longer visible in search results. Typical parasites. [...]

By: steve

steve — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:19:17 +0000

Thanks for pointing out the rogue 301 requests, had forgotten about the problem of these. Made me have a check through some sites

By: Integrati Marketing Consulting

Integrati Marketing Consulting — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:35:15 +0000

This is an amazing resource thank you. So important to be aware of the security issues and these definitions are really thoughtful and useful, book-marking this page now!

Thank you!

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By: Al Sefati

Al Sefati — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:41:36 +0000

great post…always good to learn how hackers hack your website so you can protect yourself.

By: Introduction to Website Parasites | Malware Help. Org

Introduction to Website Parasites | Malware Help. Org — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:06:40 +0000

[...] "Wikipedia defines Parasitism as a “type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species in which one, the parasite, benefits from a prolonged, close association with the other, the host, which is harmed.” This definition perfectly describes relationships between hackers and legitimate websites. As it often happens in real life, the host (legitimate website and its owner) may be completely unaware of parasites until the harmful effect becomes obvious (e.g. drops in traffic, lost search engine rankings, site gets blacklisted, etc. ). And it doesn’t matter how big or small your site is and how malicious the hack is – this is the sort of relationships where parasites (hackers) always win and legitimate websites always lose. As a webmaster, you can be more effective at detecting and mitigating parasitic activities if you know how hackers can benefit from your site ." – Content courtesy of Introduction to Website Parasites | Unmask Parasites. Blog. [...]