Adobe Reader and Oracle Java aren’t alone in having a bull’s eye painted on their code. WordPress also is becoming a popular target for Internet outlaws. It’s quite a large target, too. About 18 percent of the sites on the Web — about 60 million of them — use WordPress. One reason WordPress is attracting hacker attention is that it’s so easy to write plug-ins for it, noted Maty Siman, founder of Checkmarx. There are more than 25,000 plug-ins written for WordPress. “That’s good for WordPress, but it has some bad security implications.”
There is no denying that WordPress has become one of the most popular framework for web developers. The flexibility and multiple plugin support that it provides will surely amaze anybody. These are the reasons that WordPress can be hacked easily because of fault in plugins and more importantly username and passwords would be hacked using brute force attack. We as Techcronus having expert WordPress developers to develop secure web applications. Reach us at: http://www.techcronus.com/services/opensource-development.html
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Hackers Find WordPress Easy Pickings
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. June 17, 2013 09:35 AMAdobe Reader and Oracle Java aren’t alone in having a bull’s eye painted on their code. WordPress also is becoming a popular target for Internet outlaws. It’s quite a large target, too. About 18 percent of the sites on the Web — about 60 million of them — use WordPress. One reason WordPress is attracting hacker attention is that it’s so easy to write plug-ins for it, noted Maty Siman, founder of Checkmarx. There are more than 25,000 plug-ins written for WordPress. “That’s good for WordPress, but it has some bad security implications.”