It looks like even Stanford University, where Google was born, has been victim to the latest WordPress exploit going around.
I was poking around in the serps from the query I showed in the last post, seeing what blogs had been hit, when I stumbled across listings showing one of MRSEC’s (Materials Research Science & Engineering Centers) blogs, that happens to be hosted at Stanford.edu, hacked using the exploit (cached search):
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Here is what I find really interesting. In the last post, I mentioned how Google was already flagging some of the affected sites with the “This site may harm your computer” tag:
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Yet even though the exact same pages exist on Stanford, it doesn’t get that flag. At least, not yet anyways.
I wonder how long it will take Google to deindex Stanford now for spamming. 😀
Nice catch!
Even edu sites can get hacked. Google and all the search engines should beef up the security against all threats.
ooh I’m in good company 🙂
Now Stanford Is Hacked http://cpima.stanford.edu/