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Friday, March 06, 2015

The WordPress CMS isn't insecure – you are!

The latest in a long line of headlines has highlighted yet another WordPress flaw – this time a million sites have been put at risk by a vulnerability introduced by another poorly coded plugin, with an analytics tool using a stupidly guessable secret key. As a result, warnings have been flying around about how insecure WordPress is and how it's time to get real and move into a more secure Content Management System. The only getting real that needs to be done is in the mindset of those who are way to quick to blame WordPress and way too slow to look in the mirror where the true responsibility may well be reflected.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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