Lao Voices

There is something seriously wrong with Laohub, the Lao teen chat platform that has *cough cough* more than 5000 users if you believe the script that its former webmaster made for creating ghost accounts. By coincidence, I came across this message on a Google search.

Now you must know that Google is very careful putting such warnings on a site because it is simply bad for business. A Google security message is rarely flawed. I was not surprised when I got the next security warning from my Google desktop when I tried to reach Lao babble heaven:

This is a friendly warning because the owners of Laohub, Kimook, are known for two things. First, they were hacked few times before and they always attempt to keep their users in the dark about this. This is not fair. Users give their personal data to you and, as a responsible webmaster, you should protect their privacy. This implies that when you are hacked you inform your users and give insight to the measurements you took to clean your site and prevent future hacks.

Secondly, the webmaster(s) of Laohub obviously struggle with the inheritance of the Laohub creator. By now they must have discovered the high percentage of ghost accounts and the considerable vulnerability of their hacked PHP Nuke CMS. Laohub webmasters never seemed to grasp the concept of the necessity to constantly upgrade their CMS (and all of its mods). Running a community website is not as easy as they had hoped, and, moreover, I bet they were shocked when they discovered the actual state this overly patched website was in when they bought it.

I will leave you to it with a friendly advice that visiting the Hub, in the current state of March 15, might infect your PC with spyware or malware that could seriously harm your PC or privacy (or both). Please be warned until the Google safety warnings will be revoked and the Hubbers employed a professional to repair the mess.