{"id":1024,"date":"2010-09-17T17:14:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2010-09-17T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T16:15:17","slug":"embarassing-uses-of-flash-342-wicks-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/17\/embarassing-uses-of-flash-342-wicks-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarassing uses of Flash #342: Wicks Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wicks Group<\/a> is a private-equity firm routinely buying and selling companies for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Here’s their web page:<\/p>\n

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Yes, really. At first I thought it was some small spam-using firm with crappy webskills, that had managed to buy the domain name of a bigger company. I closed the window.<\/p>\n

But later, I got referred back to the same domain by a reputable site, so I tried again.<\/p>\n

Here’s what the site looks like when you enable Flash:<\/p>\n

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Ah! That’s better!<\/p>\n

So, I’m guessing their website got hacked some time ago, inserting the advert spam for NFL Jerseys … on that basis, I’ve emailed them and suggested they hire a decent web developer to take a look at the site and remove the hack – and probably upgrade their webserver so that it doesn’t get hacked again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wicks Group is a private-equity firm routinely buying and selling companies for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Here’s their web page: Yes, really. At first I thought it was some small spam-using firm with crappy webskills, that had managed to buy the domain name of a bigger company. I closed the window. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}