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[Closed] Singular Swift - website hacked?

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I wanted to have a look at the Singular website (interested in the Swift) but Google displays a warning saying the website might be hacked. Is it best to avoid, and if so, will it be fixed soon?


 
Posted : 01/06/2014 7:19 pm
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Opens ok for me.

Thought maybe rampaging Puffins had caused a problem...


 
Posted : 01/06/2014 7:38 pm
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It's been saying that forever


 
Posted : 01/06/2014 7:49 pm
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Or was hacked a while back but ok now . Google has a long memory.


 
Posted : 01/06/2014 7:52 pm
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Okay, thanks for that.


 
Posted : 01/06/2014 8:20 pm
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When I view it on my tablet there is a lot of embedded spam appearing as menu items making the site unusable. If I use a PC I don't see them.


 
Posted : 01/06/2014 9:02 pm
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It was hacked, fixed, and possibly now hacked again, don't know. It's really f'ing frustrating but I am trying to get someone to deal with it... The guy I've used in the past is too busy to take it on, so if anyone can refer a web security guru I'd appreciate it. AFAIK it is nothing malicious, just embedded links where you can't even see them on my site designed to drive up the search results of shonky sites....

Deejayen - if there is anything I can answer in the mean time just drop me an email or ask away on here.

Cheers,

Sam


 
Posted : 02/06/2014 12:13 pm
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A quick glance through the code of the homepage and one other page didn't come up with anything.
Anyone see anything?


 
Posted : 02/06/2014 12:21 pm
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Sam - As someone who also runs a small companies website I would recommend just getting a managed website and not just getting some to create you a bespoke now that gets loaded onto your web servers. You then have a website management company that has to look after all the security details and making sure all the software is up to date. We use Shopify, it doesn't have 100's of bells and whistles but does work well.


 
Posted : 02/06/2014 12:41 pm