1. My work got some attention at CES so I tried to find articles about it. Filtering for items that were from the last X days and searching for a product name found pages and pages of plagiarized content from our help center. Loading any one of the pages showed an OS appropriate fake “your system is compromised! Install this update” box.
What’s the game here? Is someone trying to suppress our legit pages, or piggybacking on the content, or is that just what happens now?
2. I was looking for some OpenCV stuff and found a blog walking through a tutorial - except my spidey sense kept going off because the write up simply didn’t make sense with the code. Looking a bit further I found that some guys really well written blog had been completely plagiarized and posted on some “code academy tutorial” sort of site - with no attribution. What have we come to?
The first seems big right now, on weird subdomains of clearly hacked sites. E.g. some embedded Linux tutorial on a subdomain of a small-town football club.
Yup. Entertainingly I just saw an example of the “lying date” the original article pointed out: according to google the page is from 17 hours ago. However right next to this it says June, xx 2018. Really?
1. My work got some attention at CES so I tried to find articles about it. Filtering for items that were from the last X days and searching for a product name found pages and pages of plagiarized content from our help center. Loading any one of the pages showed an OS appropriate fake “your system is compromised! Install this update” box.
What’s the game here? Is someone trying to suppress our legit pages, or piggybacking on the content, or is that just what happens now?
2. I was looking for some OpenCV stuff and found a blog walking through a tutorial - except my spidey sense kept going off because the write up simply didn’t make sense with the code. Looking a bit further I found that some guys really well written blog had been completely plagiarized and posted on some “code academy tutorial” sort of site - with no attribution. What have we come to?