RSS Feeds: BloggingZoom Hacked
Update 2008-01-26: I don't know when it came back up, but it's back up and better than ever.
I went to BloggingZoom to do my daily run through the posts and found… NOTHING.
Knowing that Courtney Tuttle of "Court's Internet Marketing School" is a cofounder, I checked his blog and found "BloggingZoom Hacked". I think Vic's "Blogger Unleashed" blog may be housed on the same server as BloggingZoom because his site won't come up either.
BloggingZoom is growing rapidly. It poses a threat to other social websites that rely on the traffic that's leaving them and heading over to BloggingZoom. It's obvious to me, and should be obvious to you, that this hack attack is an attempt to put it out of commission. Wrong answer. Both Vic and Court have the finances and the connections to make BZ bigger and better than the other, similar, social websites. In fact, a not-so-closely guarded secret is that they were preparing for a new design and interface launch on February 1st.
I think, and this is my thought only, that the competitors weren't worried about BloggingZoom as long as BZ continued to use the Pligg software (based on a very old copy of Digg). An improved design and interface changed all that.
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I hope everything gets sorted quickly. These hackers make me sick. I've only recently come across Vic's site and it's amazing. I'm having to read the cache on stuff I need to re-read.
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Vic's blog is back up, but BZ is still down.
Can't wait to see what Vic has to say about all of this ;)
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He's been back up for 5 hours and nary a word. Hmmm…
This is the second attempt, I think. Vic and Court probably don't know that Bloggingzoom and Bloggerunleashed were both unavailable to anyone receiving their internet from certain satellite feed in Canada. It took me two hours on the phone to get it straightened out with the tech guys, who couldn't explain why one day I could access these two sites and the next I couldn't. Seems someone made the DSN 'disappear' to my ISP, and I could get to any site on the world but Bloggingzoom and Bloggerunleashed. This was yesterday. Seems kinda coincidental, doesn't it?
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Coincidental is probably the correct way to look at it. Since DNS servers aren't centralized, I frequently don't have access to websites that are in certain locations, though I know they're still live.
BloggingZoom is one of the few sites I've looked at seriously to improve my blog readership. Hope they fix the problem.
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Thanks for helping to spread the word, R.T. I love Blogging Zoom and hope they can get it back on its feet soon.
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I know this is a bit old but I was doing some search cause I heard BZ got hacked again…anyone know if this is true?
I haven't seen anything at all about it.
It is amazing to see how many blogs get hacked these days. However, there is a simple solution to counteract this. Simply upload the index.php file into your theme again and you should be good to go.
I have a friend who is quite versed in coding, he told me about this. Hope it helps. :-)
Wow, I didn't know about this incident — if BloggingZoom comes back as an improved version I might take a look at it again. I remember submitting a post there a few months ago but there did not seem to be much activity.