In this episode, Bill shares about his experience of some malicious code that got on his website which then caused Google to flag the site as an “attack site” to anyone who visited. From there, his Twitter account picked up the Google notice that the site was flagged and promptly suspended his Twitter account because the site was referenced in his Twitter profile. At first he thought it was a password hack on Twitter. Turns out the malicious code that crept into the blog via a Wordpress plugin was the issue. In the end the biggest lesson learned is that Google has a whole lot more influence than any of us imagine.

Tags: attack sites, Firefox, google, twitter, Wordpress, YouTube plugin bug

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