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Apr
26
2010

Are Social Bookmarking Buttons Hijacking AdSense Publisher IDs?

Something has been hijacking the Adsense Publisher ID on some of my pageloads, inserting someone else’s ID in the Google ads instead of mine and stealing Adsense revenue. I’ve been investigating this with some members of the Google Help forums and the Fiddler HTTP debugger.

Jan
5
2010

My Joomla Website was Hacked – Here’s What I Did Next

When my Joomla website was hacked with rogue javascript, it was done unobtrusively: no massive deleting of files, or ‘pwned’ claims on the home page. So it was obviously done for a hidden, longer term purpose, rather than to take the site down, and that worried me. Could it be rescued?