Blogger Got Hacked
Pretty crazy that I am just about to create a Blogger blog for a client coming up here, when I run into this article on PC World about how they got hacked. It also talks about large amounts of downtime it had this weekend for both Blogger.com and Blogspot hosting services. Apparently Google who owns Blogger said the down time was due to a “network malufunction”, isn’t it always LOL.
The hacker exploited of all blogs, the main official Google blog. I found this to be rather funny. The hacker (I would call this kid a script kiddie) posted a blog entry stating that Google had cancelled a joint click-to-call advertising project with eBAy. Between this and the downtime I would think many users are going to be thinking of switching services.
You would think since Google owns the company that they would be on top of things but like the author of the article states “Google has been criticized by some for being slow to enhance and upgrade the pioneering service.” I guess their to busy making all these new and cool things and not caring as much for something they invested in 3 years ago. Hopefully this shows them that they are slacking and maybe come up with some more innovative ideas for this bloggin service and not let it fall behind, I mean at least stay on top of security. The last blog that I would think would get exploited would be Googles. I guess they should of got Wordpress LOL.