[LINK] Arnnet website hacked?

stephen at melbpc.org.au stephen at melbpc.org.au
Sun May 5 00:11:09 AEST 2013


Exactly right, my bad, thanks Karl

> On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 14:20 +0000, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> > Appears that the always otherwise excellent Arnnet website has been 
hacked.
> 
> No... look at the heading: "Community Comments". If you look at the
> links, you'll see that they all link into the comments streams on
> various articles. That sidebar element is a widget that automatically
> selects and inserts "news items" from the comment streams.
> 
> All that has happened here is that a spammer has managed to get a
> comment up. It will no doubt be deleted in due course, and the
> "Community Comment" link will also disappear soon, replaced by a link to
> a fresher comment.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
> 
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