The BlackHats are Coming!!
The BlackHats are Coming!!
SEOidiot
Watchout WordPress users, the BlackHats are coming!!
As you may or may not know I have several friends who are involved in BlackHat SEO and they have been showing particular interest in the progress of Themey, my WordPress theme site. I had a little think about the potential for WP in the blackhat arena, and the things that can be done with it are very worrysome. The potential includes (but is in no way limited to):
* Using your domain, server and IP address to send bulk email.
* Using your server and IP address to spam other bloggers with comment and trackback spam promoting their latest PPC campaign (Pills, Porn and Casino).
* Using your site to pass PageRank (PR) to their PPC site.
If you are interested in the way that spammers could use your site for evil you can find more details (including an example site showing a method of user-agent based PR spam) in my Security Vulnerability post at Themey.