Monday, May 23, 2016

Content management systems (CMS) insecurity

Content management systems continue lowering the bar for webmasters. According to a recent Secunia report, "over a third of the websites online are powered by four key platforms: WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, and Magento."

Unfortunately, this "introduces a large influx of unskilled webmasters and service providers responsible for the deployment and administrations of these sites."  Common disregard for system maintenance.

"As the technical aptitude required to have a website drops," the webmaster is increasingly the weakest link.  Sites running atop the top 4 CMS platform investigated by Securi were overwhelmingly out-of-date.
"There is a sharp drop off in the knowledge required to have a website, which is breeding the wrong mindset with website owners." The report concludes, "One thing we know from this report is that vulnerable software is a big problem, contributing to a large number of compromises. The blanket guidance to stay current and update is falling on deaf ears."

Source: Securi Website Hacked Report 2016 - Q1

1 comment:

  1. I admire this article for the well-researched content and excellent wording. I got so involved in this material that I couldn’t stop reading. I am impressed with your work and skill. Thank you so much.
    Joomla training in chennai

    ReplyDelete

Share your thoughts.