{"id":733,"date":"2010-05-12T11:21:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/news\/?p=733"},"modified":"2010-05-12T13:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:46:43","slug":"go-daddy-continues-pr-campaign-instead-of-fixing-security-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/go-daddy-continues-pr-campaign-instead-of-fixing-security-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Daddy Continues PR Campaign Instead of Fixing Security Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning a new variant of the <a href=\"\/resources\/bibzoplcom-malware.html\">bibzopl.com  malware<\/a>, this variant calls a JavaScript file from holasionweb.com, infected a large number of Go Daddy hosted websites. By this morning their PR department had already contacted us again, with continued <a href=\"http:\/\/community.godaddy.com\/godaddy\/whats-up-with-go-daddy-wordpress-php-exploits-and-malware\/\">misinformation<\/a> about the issue. If they eventually decide to work on discovering and fixing the underlying security\u00a0 issue, instead of running a PR campaign that claims they are secure, the websites would stop getting reinfected.<\/p>\n<p>Go Daddy continues to claim, when not <a href=\"\/news\/2010\/05\/05\/go-daddy-again-blames-malware-on-outdated-wordpress-installations\/\">claiming<\/a> the issue is due to outdated WordPress installations, that this malware is due to &#8220;Individuals running outdated applications and software&#8221;. As we have <a href=\"\/news\/2010\/05\/03\/go-daddy-changes-statement-after-websites-reinfected\/\">posted before<\/a> , and Go Daddy is well aware of, the malware has infected websites running up to date software and websites not  running software.<\/p>\n<p>If you are Go Daddy customer who has been infected and is running updated software, we would be  interested to know what response you have received from Go Daddy about  this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning a new variant of the bibzopl.com malware, this variant calls a JavaScript file from holasionweb.com, infected a large number of Go Daddy hosted websites. By this morning their PR department had already contacted us again, with continued misinformation about the issue. If they eventually decide to work on discovering and fixing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/go-daddy-continues-pr-campaign-instead-of-fixing-security-issue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go Daddy Continues PR Campaign Instead of Fixing Security Issue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}