Last week, my official website (http://jthorn.net) began showing up as "malware infected" or as a "phishing scam" site in certain watchdog software programs and services. Luckily, a good friend of mine noticed this and emailed me about it.
It turns out, one of the WordPress plugins I use had a vulnerability that became massively exploited by hackers. My site wasn't affected. Here's where you can read the geeky details:
http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/09/slider-revolution-plugin-critical-vulnerability-being-exploited.html
But unfortunately, more damage was already done. My site was blacklisted by Google Safe Browsing and by Twitter. Google removed me from that list almost immediately. Twitter has yet to respond. ANY link to ANY page on my website in ANY tweet ever sent now warns visitors that I'm "potentially harmful."
My site is up. Its fine. You will not be harmed by visiting it. However, I can't run any more giveaways until Twitter removes my site from their "naughty" list. If you'd like to help, you can go here, choose "I can't tweet a link because Twitter thinks it's spam" and follow the prompts.
Thanks for letting Twitter know I'm not potentially harmful. Well, at least my website isn't.
Sincerely,
J. Thorn