Tag: cons

  1. Website file integrity monitoring on the cheap.

    30 May 2017

    A persistent risk of websites is the possibility of somebody finding a vulnerability in the CMS and backdooring the code so that commands and code can be executed remotely.  At the very least it means that somebody can poke around in the directory structure of the site without being noticed.  At worst it would seem that the sky's the limit.  In the past, I've seen cocktails of browser exploits injected remotely into the site's theme that try to pop everybody who visits the site, but that is by no means the nastiest thing that somebody could do.  This begs the …

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