My Moodle hosts several forums in which the participants discuss personal issues, and require serious privacy.
Recently posts from these forums have begun popping up on Technorati ... I just don't see how this is possible, and need to do something to address the problem.
I haven't seen anything in this forumon this subject, but any insights would be helpful.
In reply to Richard Miller
Re: Forum posts appearing in Technorati - have I been hacked?
by Howard Miller -
Possibly, but much more likely that you have been infiltrated or someone's password has been guessed. I've never heard of Technorati - I assume it's a bad thing....
Getting searching logs and see if you can spot the pattern!
Getting searching logs and see if you can spot the pattern!
In reply to Howard Miller
Re: Forum posts appearing in Technorati - have I been hacked?
by Richard Miller -
Technorati isn't evil -- it's an extremely popular service that indexes public blogs. I assumed (?) that their robots or spiders or whatever somehow found my forum's RSS feed ... or that someone republished it so they could find it. Or something.
Where do I find "searching logs"?
Where do I find "searching logs"?
In reply to Richard Miller
Re: Forum posts appearing in Technorati - have I been hacked?
by Howard Miller -
Errrm.... you've switched on RSS feeds for forums and you wonder why you have a problem??
EDIT:
Just had a look at Technorati. Looks a bit rubbish to me... all broken links and junk. Still....
EDIT:
Just had a look at Technorati. Looks a bit rubbish to me... all broken links and junk. Still....
In reply to Howard Miller
Re: Forum posts appearing in Technorati - have I been hacked?
by Richard Miller -
I believed that there was no way to access the RSS feeds without having access to a password protected part of the site.
Am I wrong about that? I certainly can't figure out where they could be seen by outsiders.
Where would that be? How?
Am I wrong about that? I certainly can't figure out where they could be seen by outsiders.
Where would that be? How?
In reply to Richard Miller
Re: Forum posts appearing in Technorati - have I been hacked?
by Howard Miller -
It's only "security by obscurity" which isn't security at all.
In reply to Howard Miller
Re: Forum posts appearing in Technorati - have I been hacked?
by Richard Miller -
I just saw a notice on LinkedIn's RSS page (if you want to enable RSS for your network updates).
Here is the text of LinkedIn's warning:
"Some web-based feed readers publish your feed URLs on the web, making them available to search engines and everyone else. You should not subscribe to LinkedIn’s Personal feeds with a web-based feed reader unless it guarantees that your feeds are kept private."
That seems pretty clearcut.
Here is the text of LinkedIn's warning:
"Some web-based feed readers publish your feed URLs on the web, making them available to search engines and everyone else. You should not subscribe to LinkedIn’s Personal feeds with a web-based feed reader unless it guarantees that your feeds are kept private."
That seems pretty clearcut.
In reply to Howard Miller
Re: Forum posts appearing in Technorati - have I been hacked?
by Richard Miller -
Soooo ... I actually didn't turn RSS feeds on, they were (apparently) on by default. How do I turn them off?
In reply to Richard Miller
Re: Forum posts appearing in Technorati - have I been hacked?
by Tim Hunt -
There is an admin setting for it. Can't remember where, use the search.
In reply to Richard Miller
Re: Forum posts appearing in Technorati - have I been hacked?
by Howard Miller -
....and they're *definitely* not on by default!