Indeed. Wordpress is a popular target for attack because it is widely installed, often by people who lack the resources to keep on top of maintenance. I think wordpress and others have tried to improve ease of updating, but if you customise your site there are often annoying complications.
I often wish I had more faith in web 2.0 hosted services that manage these things for me, but the different insecurities and inflexibility that these bring make me hesitant to use them. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], Jacek Artymiak <jacekartym...@...> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Mike Meiser > <groups-yahoo-...@...> wrote: > > Sad to hear. :( > > I'm assuming he was running wordpress? > > > > I've seen way to many wordpress blogs hacked. The problem is just maintence, > > you have to keep wordpress constantly up to date to patch security holes. If > > you don't it will inevitably get hacked. Same goes for all server side open > > source. > > You are being naive, Mike. It has nothing to do with the software > being open or closed source. > > Maintenance is not a problem, it is what you have to do.
