Comments on: Ways to Find Out if Your Site Has Been Hacked or Hijacked http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:19:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Kerry Dye Vertical Leap http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/comment-page-1/#comment-1084822 Kerry Dye Vertical Leap Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:44:08 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/#comment-1084822 And if your server logs have been deleted, that's something that hackers do too. Unfortunately they are something that a lot of site owners don't have access to though, which is why we are always investigating alternatives. Site owners may need to notify their web host that there is a problem, because webhosts don't always spot it. And if they do spot hacking they don't always fix the sites that got affected because it is more important to them to close the hole than fix the problems that got caused. And if your server logs have been deleted, that’s something that hackers do too. Unfortunately they are something that a lot of site owners don’t have access to though, which is why we are always investigating alternatives. Site owners may need to notify their web host that there is a problem, because webhosts don’t always spot it. And if they do spot hacking they don’t always fix the sites that got affected because it is more important to them to close the hole than fix the problems that got caused.

]]> By: Rick Stone http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/comment-page-1/#comment-1084819 Rick Stone Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:52:36 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/#comment-1084819 Two out of the 2 links I clicked on didn't work. The last comment was the best thing of the whole article. CHECK YOUR FILE LOGS! Two out of the 2 links I clicked on didn’t work. The last comment was the best thing of the whole article. CHECK YOUR FILE LOGS!

]]> By: blu star web design services in tipperary, ireland http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/comment-page-1/#comment-1083881 blu star web design services in tipperary, ireland Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:28:39 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/#comment-1083881 monitoring web server logs and the syslog on unix machines will show up any attempted hijacks.. monitoring web server logs and the syslog on unix machines will show up any attempted hijacks..

]]> By: Gavin Mitchell http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/comment-page-1/#comment-1083487 Gavin Mitchell Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:19:26 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/#comment-1083487 Thanks for the SerpGuard reminder Ann - I meant to sign up when Nick first mentioned it was live but it slipped my mind :) Thanks for the SerpGuard reminder Ann – I meant to sign up when Nick first mentioned it was live but it slipped my mind :)

]]> By: Ann Smarty http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/comment-page-1/#comment-1083438 Ann Smarty Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:32:07 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/#comment-1083438 @Nick : thanks for stopping by for a great comment! @Nick : thanks for stopping by for a great comment!

]]> By: Chris Kieff http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/comment-page-1/#comment-1083437 Chris Kieff Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:44:27 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/#comment-1083437 Ann, Excellent ideas here. Several years ago I had a hacker set up a Bank spoofing site (Royal Bank of Scotland) on one of my servers. I felt terrible that my site could have been used for identity theft. I'm not sure how these methods would help to detect that. The only clue would possibly be a spike in traffic from email systems. But no external links were used. Since then I've used one basic tool- Roboform, to generate random passwords and remember them for me. I've not had another problem. Thanks, Chris Ann,
Excellent ideas here. Several years ago I had a hacker set up a Bank spoofing site (Royal Bank of Scotland) on one of my servers. I felt terrible that my site could have been used for identity theft. I’m not sure how these methods would help to detect that. The only clue would possibly be a spike in traffic from email systems. But no external links were used.

Since then I’ve used one basic tool- Roboform, to generate random passwords and remember them for me. I’ve not had another problem.

Thanks,
Chris

]]> By: Nick Wilsdon http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/comment-page-1/#comment-1083430 Nick Wilsdon Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:11:25 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/#comment-1083430 Thanks for the link to SERPGuard Ann! I'm glad you got setup in there without a problem. BTW, you can test your email address by going to the settings, that will confirm system emails get through to you. I didn't build in a way to send false malware warnings - that maybe an idea for the future. We have already had sites we are monitoring flagged as malware though so it does seem to be helping people. @Software Testing You can manually check the Google Blacklist database by following the instructions here at SEL: http://searchengineland.com/080523-075927.php Our tool just automates the process - push not pull. There is no way to query the database to get a list of compromised sites, unless you know the URLs already. Thanks for the link to SERPGuard Ann! I’m glad you got setup in there without a problem.

BTW, you can test your email address by going to the settings, that will confirm system emails get through to you. I didn’t build in a way to send false malware warnings – that maybe an idea for the future.

We have already had sites we are monitoring flagged as malware though so it does seem to be helping people.

@Software Testing

You can manually check the Google Blacklist database by following the instructions here at SEL:

http://searchengineland.com/080523-075927.php

Our tool just automates the process – push not pull. There is no way to query the database to get a list of compromised sites, unless you know the URLs already.

]]> By: Kerry Dye Vertical Leap http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/comment-page-1/#comment-1083399 Kerry Dye Vertical Leap Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:08:09 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/#comment-1083399 Oh, just found that SEO Chat has one too http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/site-link-analyzer/ Oh, just found that SEO Chat has one too http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/site-link-analyzer/

]]> By: Kerry Dye Vertical Leap http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/comment-page-1/#comment-1083398 Kerry Dye Vertical Leap Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:21 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/#comment-1083398 There are a few around, the bad neighbourhood tool does it http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm, if you are only interested in a single page then try http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/outbound-links.html. The one I was using to check whole sites isn't live any longer, so we made our own http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk/seo-tools/external-links.asp Hope this helps Kerry There are a few around, the bad neighbourhood tool does it http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm, if you are only interested in a single page then try http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/outbound-links.html. The one I was using to check whole sites isn’t live any longer, so we made our own http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk/seo-tools/external-links.asp

Hope this helps

Kerry

]]> By: Ann Smarty http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/comment-page-1/#comment-1083385 Ann Smarty Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:52:50 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ways-to-find-out-if-your-site-has-been-hacked-or-hijacked/7370/#comment-1083385 @Kerry : how exactly you are tracking your external links? thank for the tip btw! @Kerry : how exactly you are tracking your external links? thank for the tip btw!

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