Will Housing Panic be next?
Readers - I've been made aware that three housing bubble blogs, hosted on blogger (blogspot) have been attacked and taken down today:
http://overvalued.blogspot.com
http://thereisnohousingbubble.blogspot.com
http://crash2006.blogspot.com
These sites are now redirected to spam sites. There may be others, and the attack may be ongoing.
I've changed my password on blogger, am logged in to avoid a logout, and backed up my code, however, the real risk may be the archives. I'd hate to lose those.
If anyone has any further advice, or know how to contact a human at blogger, please post here. I've been thinking of moving off of blogger, and have housingpanic.com, just don't have the time or wherewithal to do the move. Again - any advice appreciated. You can't just pick up the phone and call blogger unfortunately - there is no there there.
Yes, we are going up against some big forces and big $$$ - the NAR, millions of soon to be unemployed realtors, the entire corrupt Real Estate Industrial Complex. I'm surprised it's taken this long to attack us.
May 30, 2006
Housing Bubble Blogs Under Attack!
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It's on!!!
also, the News from America's Bubbletowns blog is gone.
Lets not talk about it so it won't happen!
http://www.enaghbeg.com/ is down!!!
Kieth
Give me $100,000
and your blog won't crash
Kieth,
When you sign on to one of you advertisers - don't be stupid and use "Housing Panic" in the email, or thr same password you have here.
I had folks try to hack into my gambling accounts to steal my money. Advertisers seeking your pass word were my prime suspects
keith:
give me all your gold..and no hacking , promise
Find a unix machine (Solaris, Linux, OSX, even windows with Cygwin). Use the wget program to recusively get the directories and subdirectories of this blog and save it to a local directory.
Try browsing to this local directory. It probably won't work entirely because you don't have the blogger display engine and many of the links point to blogger.com but it could serve as an emergency backup of the text content. Hire a unix/linux/solaris expert to write a script to replace the links or ask the webspace provider if they have a blogger compatible engine.
overpriceddc.blogspot.com is showing some spam page ...
Keith,
One of the spam sites talks about opportunities to 'work from home'. The irony being that very soon, most of these people won't have homes to work from anymore. Unless, of course, they mean working from a cardboard box under a bridge...
Get a good lawyer NOW. One like Cochran that loves publicity and isn't afraid of controversy... they may sue the attackers and work for their cut. Make this attack know to the public asap!! Contact Hot Property and Abrams Report.
Did we need any more evidence that the phrase "realtor ethics" is an oxymoron? Or that realtors are morons?
Sheesh.
Keith.... download and use the free anti-spyware, anti-trojan-virus removal software and anti-ad-ware software found at the left bottom of this blog: BROADBAND over POWER LINES: new 200 Mbps Technology !!!
Hope you will have a faster and clean PC hard-drive of spams !!!
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Keith.... download and use the free anti-spyware, anti-trojan-virus removal software and anti-ad-ware software found at the RIGHT bottom of this blog: BROADBAND over POWER LINES: new 200 Mbps Technology !!!
Hope you will have a faster and clean PC hard-drive of spams !!!
I am investigating.
David
Bubble Meter Blog
Hi Keith,
Anyone with access to the hosting company can put a redirect on your URL to another URL, while hiding the real URL of the second. Kids, hackers, do this kind of crap. So do careless employees.
You need to call your hosting company and make sure they lock your site.
If you go to overvalued.blogspot.com, which takes you to something else, right click on the page and select "view source," you will see that this HTML page for Atlanta real estate HAS, near the bottom, the HTML coding for overvalued.blogspot.com. In other words, somebody (or a computer) has rigged the page to accept the redirects.
The hosting company is the most probable suspect, and in any event, the only power that can fix the problem (assuming the company hasn't done this on purpose), which can be done in a matter of seconds or minutes. If all the sites in question are part of the same blog company, then there's your answer. You can probably find an address and phone number by using your own computer's Interest search feature.
Following up on what I just wrote, this is not necessarily indicative of a virus or anything of the sort. I looks like a standard re-direct, with cloaking of the URL of site to which the redirect is made.
its a common advertiser.
Note the address for the title title="Commercial Real Estate" href="http://overvalued.blogspot.com/atom.xml
there is a program you can use with Windows to suck down an entire site and all the links:
Web Site Ripper:
http://www.download.com/Website-Ripper-Copier/3000-2377_4-10358535.html
there is a program you can use with Windows to suck down an entire site and all the links:
Web Site Ripper:
http://www.download.com/Website-Ripper-Copier/3000-2377_4-10358535.html
The whole mortgage industry is corrupt, this doesn't surprise me.
My friend went to work for a company that asked me to send out spam for them (unsolicited). I told him no way, my isp would shut me down. They found a company in China that would do it for them though.
They even send junk faxes to fax machines.
So corrupt. Lets push these ridiculous housing mortgages to people who cannot afford them, no doc, no problem! They will be in default in a few monthes.
Anonymous said ...
"there is a program you can use with Windows to suck down an entire site and all the links:
"Web Site Ripper:
"http://www.download.com/Website-Ripper-Copier/3000-2377_4-10358535.html "
This doesn't take down a site, it just copies it.
i'm ripping the full site right now using the tucows website ripper program - i'll let you know if that works. worst case I'd get the blog up and running at www.housingpanic.com while I figure out how to fix the http://housingpanic.blogspot.com account
I'm not a techie though, so hopefully won't be called into action!
anyone see any more bubble blogs down? I think we're up to 5
rip didn't work
blogger offers advice on how to backup but looks dangerous..
any other bloggers working this issue post here or email me
"The hosting company is the most probable suspect, and in any event, the only power that can fix the problem (assuming the company hasn't done this on purpose), which can be done in a matter of seconds or minutes. If all the sites in question are part of the same blog company"
-so we should suspect an insider at google/blogger/blogspot?
how about emailing the people who run these blogs, huh
All you need to do is this assuming you have a command line wget available:
wget -r http://housingpanic.blogspot.com
It will pull the whole damned thing recursively. Anyone with a fast connection, linux, unix, or cygwin can do this.
while I figure this out, anyone in the HP community with tech savvy that can create a mirror of this site, you're more than welcome. Then if we go down, email me at housingpanic@yahoo.com and let me know you have a copy
cheers
ugh!
fricking Real Estate Industrial Complex
Conspiracy McGee said...
"how about emailing the people who run these blogs, huh"
They don't all have e-mail addresses on site.
The owners may not be aware of the redirects, though they might notice a sudden bump in the number of visitors they're getting. However, the new visitors won't be staying, so it will be a momentary thrill.
Anonymous said...
"'The hosting company is the most probable suspect, and in any event, the only power that can fix the problem (assuming the company hasn't done this on purpose), which can be done in a matter of seconds or minutes. If all the sites in question are part of the same blog company'
"-so we should suspect an insider at google/blogger/blogspot?"
Yes, thought not necessarily someone being malicious. It could just be a mistake.
In any event, it's easy to fix by the hosting company. Keith probably does not need to copy the site (Google should have it already), just contact the host and have it locked. This takes only a second.
He also needs to notify the company about the other blogs. There may be a reasonable explanation.
He also needs to notify the company about the other blogs. There may be a reasonable explanation. "
I think David Lereah got sick of being called "the corrupt david lereah"
Here Keith,
Go to this URL to report what's happening with the other sites, and to ask what to do>
http://tinyurl.com/nmjyl
well i'm hoping we won't see an attack.. thanks all for the advice... i'll try to get time to move this blog to the direct url, until now, we're bloggering it
I'd love to find out who was behind today's attack on the other sites - they're still not up and running...
I blog from a pretty secure network. Two of the redirected pages are also trying to open up Microsoft.com, so there may be more to this than a simple redirect hack.
Who do you suppose is behind this campain to prevent real news on the economic crash? My guess is the chicom's but it could be any party with a lot of $$$ at risk. From the way they are only redirecting, to RE friendly sites, maybe it is just script kiddies who are in too deep on a flip or two. Just maybe
Kieth,
Which other sites are hit. You listed 3 but said there are more.
Keith,
Beware of free software. I lost my home computer when I tried to install a free house design program. These free downloads are awful tempting and the hackers know it.
attacked bubble sites appear to be:
http://overvalued.blogspot.com
http://thereisnohousingbubble.blogspot.com
http://crash2006.blogspot.com
http://www.enaghbeg.com/Housing_crash/bubbletown_news.html
overpriceddc.blogspot.com
any others?
a well coordinated and planned attack for sure. the bubble blog 9/11
KEITH..
YOU ARE SO FUNNY MAN...
I LOVE YOUR BLOG AND VISISTED DAILY!!!
Let's attack the NAR and other Realtor® sites!
Better yet, alert the media. Contact the newspapers and radio stations, and let them know that some corrupt fools are shutting down these blogs to silence what is going on in the housing market.
Nothing talks like bad publicity for the corrupt realtors, brokers, and anybody else who wants to snowjob their clientele. This will backfire on them big time.
Let's give them some "Shock and Awe", housing market style!
MEDIA ALERT! that is the best idea!
Need a computer geek? I'm sure one of these regular posters has a teenage son in as room down the hall who can do anything you need him to.
Keith, move your blog to GoDaddy.com for hosting: $3.95/mo
Ha, ha, ha. Teach you to mess with us punks!
RUN TOTO !..It's falling houses and flying monkey attacks...
Use a web site ripper such as Teleport pro to backup your blogs to your hard drive, that way it will be easy to restore them if necessary.
Greets to the webmaster of this wonderful site. Keep working. Thank you.
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