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According to the Department of Homeland Security, since 2005, MT has only had 10 reported security vulnerabilities, as compared to Wordpress’ 100+
Written by pinolobu on June 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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Wordpress is arguably the most popular blogging platform. Hence, it’s a give that it has become a popular target for blackhat hackers.
The intentions are usually search-engine optimization (SEO) of other sites the bad guys control, as well as traffic-redirection and more.
And recently there were many automated attacks which exploited recently discovered security vulnerabilities in Wordpress.
Most damning, while usually Wordpress was able to keep up, in the past few days “new exploits have appeared that nobody seems to have answers for.”
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