Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

[Rev Simon Rumble <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Mary Gardiner wrote:

> I suspect attacks through web apps like WordPress are pretty common
> causes of comprise of machines run by essentially knowledgable people at
> the moment, because there doesn't seem yet to be a good set of best
> practices for packaging and updating them (upstream tends to aims their
> instructions at people who might not even have shell access, let alone
> root access, and there's the whole plugin universe too).

Yet people regularly ask me why there's no comments on my blog.  This 
and the fact I couldn't be bothered keeping it up-to-date with the 
latest comment spam blocking hacks.

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon@xxxxxxxxxx>
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