Late Wednesday evening, Google blacklisted your favorite Hip-Hop smoker’s blog due to malicious activity which cause our site to shut down until we handled the situation. It seemed that we were hit with some Malware and some hacker(s) implanted some bad script into our site. I have no idea how they were able to access our shit and why we were targeted, but our theory is because of a bad iframe we had on our site. Fortunately, we were able to crack down and find this bad script and remove it as soon as possible so we could continue to bring you the latest music.
These past couple days has been very stressful especially since there was a high possibility that we would lose our entire archive. I mean it only dates back a little over a year, but that’s a year of hard work. Instead of wiping out our archive, we only lost the past 10 days which is a 100 times better than the alternative.
This was a very good learning experience for us and it definitely taught us to never to stop moving forward no matter how depressing shit gets. You know what they say, you only stay down because you choose not to stand back up. Since then, we’ve cleared our name with Google and tightened up our security a little to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.
And to prove to you guys that we are in fact secure and safe for visiting, we ran a scan just to make sure no fuckery was left behind. Above is a screen cap from sitecheck.securi.net and if you’re not familiar with them, you can look them up and see that they’re very reliable and accurate.
Thank you all for your support for the past couple of days. We’re just glad to be back and didn’t have to do anything serious changes to our site.
