Site Hijacking RSS Feed and Entire Site in iFrame

Question

The following site appears to be hijacking a client's content.

http://mothernova2.rssing.com/chan-24556607/latest.php

This is my client's site.

http://www.mothernova.com/

How would I go about blocking that domain from accessing the site? It also appears they are pulling the site into an iframe allowing full browsing.

FYI, the site is using WordPress, WordFence and iThemes Security (if there are any settings I should add for blocking).

Answer 1

You need to use a framekilling script, which uses javascript to check if your script is the top one. Here's a simple version:

<script type="text/javascript">
if(top != self) top.location.replace(location);
</script>

One drawback to this approach: if there is a legitimate site iframing your code, you need to check the referrer and start adding exceptions.

And a question to answer before you do it: you're getting a pageview and ad impression from the annoying framing site; is there any reason why you need to go to the bother, when they're sending a few viewers to your client's content?

Answer 2

The site owners of rssing.com are well known scrapers. And they are grabbing your content by RSS, hence the name rssing.com.

You can use the contact form to ask that they take your content down. Tell them they are clearly violating your TOS and copyright for your content.

(I had to do this in the past for my own content scraped from my site; they did remove my site at my request.)

Answer 3

Maybe I wasn't implementing the above suggestions correctly (I was adding them at the page level), but they weren't working for me. I did find this post and it seems to work as outlined.

http://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/rssing-com-good-or-bad/

I updated my .htaccess file with the suggested code.

Brett