The most common excuse I can find for not upgrading is that it breaks plugins. Sorry but security is more important than playing a YouTube video. This blog has gone from V6 of Wordpress all the way up to 2.8.4 when a plugin broke (once) I fixed it.
Now the wordpress team cannot test every single [...]
Recent posts on news sites and famous blogs are starting to question the safety of WordPress.
For example The Register, The Guardian and Some guys called Robert Scoble who is apparently a famous tech blogger.
The first thing that struck me about these posts. Here is a quote from Robert Scoble.
“A few weeks ago some hackers broke [...]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/08/kaspersky_compromise_report/
I am only surmising from the limited information I can see here that ModSecurity would have protected them? Comments on this one welcome…
Rule 959001 does seem to cover the “SelECT” part of the URL in the screen shots but when I try a random url with this string in it on my website [...]