MediaWiki software is very secure (from hackers, or general software vulnerabilities) when properly setup, configured and maintained. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Security for more info on how to setup/secure LAMP and MediaWiki
There were only 5 vulnerability reports in 2013 against MediaWiki - with details (severity, scope, type) here: http://secunia.com/advisories/product/2546/?task=statistics_2013 MediaWiki software is not designed to manage fine-grained access control over contents. Therefore it would make a horrible customer account reporting system for a bank. If you want a MediaWiki with content-specific authorization controls, read about how you'll be fighting the system internals here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Security_issues_with_authorization_extensions Quick tip: if you want to setup a public (or private) MediaWiki while preventing spammers or non-authorized users from logging in and _creating_ content, then use the OpenID extension ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID) Greg Greg Rundlett http://eQuality-Tech.com http://freephile.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
