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You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking stor

by aresant 17y ago

You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .

jkincaid 17y ago
That ad was planned before we were hacked, the timing was a total coincidence. Michael is out in Davos, Switzerland right now — he isn't masterminding an opportunistic ad campaign.
- aresant 17y ago
  Dang, on purpose would have been more fun.
- jona 17y ago
  i hope this doesn't mean you have to keep that welcome ad page up as a matter of principle going forward.
- seldo 17y ago
  As long as you're here, do you have any details on the hack? Your only post about the attacks seems to be this one: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/ Which hasn't been updated with details as promised. The lack of details here and the fact that you got hacked again makes it look either like you don't know how he got in, or that there were multiple vulnerabilities.
  - maxstoller 17y ago
    It seems as if the vulnerability is in Wordpress' rpc.php file. http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/82271-shoemoney-com-hacked.html http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/82271-shoemoney-com-...
    - seldo 17y ago
      Do we have anyone's word on that other than a semi-anonymous poster on a messageboard?
- icey 17y ago
  I gotta tell you, that interstitial is pretty poorly implemented anyways (was?). Any time I try to visit a link to TC now, the interstitial comes up and then sends me to the front page. I'm not going to dig through to figure out where the actual content lives. Although, I've already dealt with the ads, so maybe it doesn't really matter.
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pavs 17y ago
I absolutely dislike techcrunch, but the idea that they somehow took advantage of this situation and put up that ad it ludicrous. I can tell you from experience that interstitial ads are not done on the spot out of no where. They are high paying ad campaigns that is negotiated well in advance with (usually) only a single type of product/services. I don't visit techcrunch often (its actually hard-coded banned in my hosts file), but I can bet it was planned couple of days in advance for this weeks apple announcement, or if it is the unlikely scenario that it happened the same day that they were hacked; it was merely a coincidence. You just don't wake up one day and put up an interstitial ad in high traffic site.
- aresant 17y ago
  I have to disagree that this is out of the realm of possibility - TechCrunch's ad team is very creative and moves fast, and their inventory is IN DEMAND! They sold ads written on a WHITEBOARD shown on their streaming office cam for goodness sake. Nearly every modern ad serving platform allows for interstitials, so this is within the realm of imagination. But he didn't, so my crackpot theory is out the window. http://www.beet.tv/2009/05/techcrunch-selling-ads-for-its-live-office-feed-and-beettv-is-is-the-launch-sponsor.html http://www.beet.tv/2009/05/techcrunch-selling-ads-for-its-li...
  - pavs 17y ago
    Interstitials ads are not the same thing as whiteboard ads. Like I said you just don't wake up one day and put them up within 24-48 hours. Your theory is still a crackpot theory even if someone from TC didn't point it out. I doubt you have any IRL experience in selling online ad inventory. Yes almost _all_ popular adservers allow interstitials, doesn't mean you see them all the time. Why? Because high paying inventory are only available in certain time of the year. Including, high-profile product launch and holiday shopping season.
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sgoel 17y ago
Can you explain what an interstital welcome.html ad is?
- aresant 17y ago
  An interstitial ad is an advertisement put in between content - the welcome.html that was on TechCrunch today was an ad greeting ALL users of techcrunch with a little "click here to see the website" at the top. Defined -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage

by aresant 17y ago

You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .

jkincaid 17y ago

That ad was planned before we were hacked, the timing was a total coincidence. Michael is out in Davos, Switzerland right now — he isn't masterminding an opportunistic ad campaign.

aresant 17y ago
Dang, on purpose would have been more fun.
jona 17y ago
i hope this doesn't mean you have to keep that welcome ad page up as a matter of principle going forward.
seldo 17y ago
As long as you're here, do you have any details on the hack? Your only post about the attacks seems to be this one: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/ Which hasn't been updated with details as promised. The lack of details here and the fact that you got hacked again makes it look either like you don't know how he got in, or that there were multiple vulnerabilities.
- maxstoller 17y ago
  It seems as if the vulnerability is in Wordpress' rpc.php file. http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/82271-shoemoney-com-hacked.html http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/82271-shoemoney-com-...
  - seldo 17y ago
    Do we have anyone's word on that other than a semi-anonymous poster on a messageboard?
icey 17y ago
I gotta tell you, that interstitial is pretty poorly implemented anyways (was?). Any time I try to visit a link to TC now, the interstitial comes up and then sends me to the front page. I'm not going to dig through to figure out where the actual content lives. Although, I've already dealt with the ads, so maybe it doesn't really matter.

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pavs 17y ago

I absolutely dislike techcrunch, but the idea that they somehow took advantage of this situation and put up that ad it ludicrous. I can tell you from experience that interstitial ads are not done on the spot out of no where. They are high paying ad campaigns that is negotiated well in advance with (usually) only a single type of product/services. I don't visit techcrunch often (its actually hard-coded banned in my hosts file), but I can bet it was planned couple of days in advance for this weeks apple announcement, or if it is the unlikely scenario that it happened the same day that they were hacked; it was merely a coincidence. You just don't wake up one day and put up an interstitial ad in high traffic site.

aresant 17y ago
I have to disagree that this is out of the realm of possibility - TechCrunch's ad team is very creative and moves fast, and their inventory is IN DEMAND! They sold ads written on a WHITEBOARD shown on their streaming office cam for goodness sake. Nearly every modern ad serving platform allows for interstitials, so this is within the realm of imagination. But he didn't, so my crackpot theory is out the window. http://www.beet.tv/2009/05/techcrunch-selling-ads-for-its-live-office-feed-and-beettv-is-is-the-launch-sponsor.html http://www.beet.tv/2009/05/techcrunch-selling-ads-for-its-li...
- pavs 17y ago
  Interstitials ads are not the same thing as whiteboard ads. Like I said you just don't wake up one day and put them up within 24-48 hours. Your theory is still a crackpot theory even if someone from TC didn't point it out. I doubt you have any IRL experience in selling online ad inventory. Yes almost _all_ popular adservers allow interstitials, doesn't mean you see them all the time. Why? Because high paying inventory are only available in certain time of the year. Including, high-profile product launch and holiday shopping season.
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sgoel 17y ago

Can you explain what an interstital welcome.html ad is?

aresant 17y ago
An interstitial ad is an advertisement put in between content - the welcome.html that was on TechCrunch today was an ad greeting ALL users of techcrunch with a little "click here to see the website" at the top. Defined -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage