Hackers Seizing Control of RSS Feeds: Beware
A Google Reader Help thread reports an increase in the number of RSS feeds being hacked into and used to redirect subscribers to spammer sites.
Googler, Roger, from the Google Reader team said:
Thanks for reporting this problem. Unfortunately, we've seen similar problems with WordPress feeds being compromised in the past. We'll look into it further, but in the meantime, I encourage you all to alert WordPress to this issue via their support forums.
Roger seems to believe there is a loophole somewhere in WordPress allowing this.
Clearly, this is not only upsetting to the publishers and their subscribers, but also to search spam. Many RSS feeds are scraped and used to inject content into Google. Spammed feeds that are scraped are can be even more of an issue for search quality.
Forum discussion at Google Reader Help.
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rustybrick in Spam at June 24, 2009 9:10 AM
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This problem just happened to me not too long ago. It was one of my awesome readers who alerted me. However, when I checked the feed using only my browser it showed up normal, but when I checked via Google Reader only then was I able to see the hacked feed. So people should be advised that it may show up normal, but they should check it through a service to be sure.
Posted by Ann-Kat (Today, I Read...) at June 26, 2009 13:47