HACKED! Lessons learned from an URL injection
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The article discusses lessons learned by the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law after experiencing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) injection type of hacking and ways to avoid it. Topics include poisoning of WordPress in the new intranet system of the school, the Blackhat search engine optimization (SEO) and Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) scripting. Also mentioned are the importance of cross departmental collaboration, use of Google Analytics, and Google Webmaster Tools.