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Being one of the biggest publishing softwares naturally attracts all of that: more publicity/cases, uninformed users, incentive and a probing/persistence ecosys
by kro 3y ago
Being one of the biggest publishing softwares naturally attracts all of that: more publicity/cases, uninformed users, incentive and a probing/persistence ecosystem for hackers,.
I have to host a few dozen WordPress sites for customers and the ones that got hacked were all backtracked to: enumerating usernames, and some had their password equal that.
You could blame WordPress for not being more strict rejecting those per default.
- berkes 3y agoBeing one of the biggest publishing softwares gives a giant responsibility to prevent this. I am convinced this responsibility isn't taken up by the community or by organisations behind it, seriously enough. Simply because the current status continues to be abysmal. I have many practical ideas how many issues could be solved, most are put forward and put down almost monthly in the community. The current status is resignment: "well, we are big and this is how things are". No! Things could be better, more secure etc. But for that, things do have to change.