[AusNOG] Borrowed addresses, data retention, court orders

[Chad Kelly]

This is the main issue with Wordpress, and other similar systems, its 
not the core platform that's the issue, it is the first time developers 
and the rubbish ones that don't know how to write code properly, so you 
end up with bloated websites with security issues, and a bunch of people 
who think those broken plugins are awesome, as they don't know about the 
security issues so they go and install them.
This is why any decent managed hosting provider won't allow customers to 
install random plugins into systems such as Wordpress.
Regards Chad.

On 1/30/2017 11:55 PM, Paul Wilkins wrote:
> Pretty sure most everyone is aware that security is easier said than 
> done. When someone with the resources of Google can be hacked, it's 
> not lack of knowledge that's the problem. It's that the industry is 
> generally in denial as to how bad the situation is, and business 
> process steamrollers over the cracks. Business development sells the 
> customer a service, project managers push timeframes for a solution on 
> time and under budget, and everyone knows any hack will be down the 
> track, and be someone else's problem. The problem is failure to build 
> security integral to IT systems, and that's not really possible with 
> an internet that's been built on an open architecture. Every month I'm 
> wondering who will be the high profile hack this month and this will 
> probably continue without a fundamental rethink of how security is 
> integrated and end to end delivered.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Paul Wilkins
>
> On 30 January 2017 at 23:04, Nathan Brookfield 
> <Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au 
> <mailto:Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     After Macquarie Media apparently had 2GB.com and 4BC.com hacked
>     this morning, also on WordPress it seems there is a big lack of
>     knowledge on this stuff out there.
>
>
>     Kindest Regards,
>
>     Nathan Brookfield (VK2NAB)
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Chad Kelly <chad at cpkws.com.au <mailto:chad at cpkws.com.au>>
>     *Sent:* Monday, 30 January 2017 10:44 PM
>     *To:* Nathan Brookfield
>     *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>     *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Borrowed addresses, data retention, court
>     orders
>
>     I should of provided the following link with my previous post but
>     Sucuri.net offer a paid service for cleaning Malware and they offer a
>     free scan for websites as well.
>     https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/theispguy.com
>     <https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/theispguy.com>
>     It looks like a bit of a mess.
>
>     Regards Chad.
>
>     On 1/30/2017 6:48 PM, Nathan Brookfield wrote:
>     > Schooled!
>     >
>     > Nathan Brookfield
>     > Chief Executive Officer
>     >
>     > Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
>     > http://www.simtronic.com.au
>     >
>     > On 30 Jan 2017, at 18:45, Chad Kelly <chad at cpkws.com.au
>     <mailto:chad at cpkws.com.au>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> On 1/30/2017 10:34 AM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net
>     <mailto:ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net> wrote:
>     >> Apparently so... screw Wordpress... bloody nightmare to manage.
>     > Not if you have the right tools in place.
>     >
>     > Generally now a days you can automate the security updates for
>     Wordpress so you don't even need to think about it.
>     >
>     > Plus you should be using other security measures such as
>     Mod_security and things like Fail 2 Ban.
>     >
>     > https://modsecurity.org/about.html
>     <https://modsecurity.org/about.html>
>     >
>     > and fail2ban.org <http://fail2ban.org>
>     >
>     > Those two tools alone with decent configs will nuke anything
>     that tries to hack in.
>     >
>     > For extra security on top of that you can use CXS, which will
>     scan for things like scripts containing malware and quarantine
>     them so that if something does manage to get in it doesn't affect
>     your online presence.
>     >
>     > https://configserver.com/cp/cxs.html
>     <https://configserver.com/cp/cxs.html> i've been using the Config
>     Server tools for years now.
>     >
>     > With those tools and Mod_security configured properly you don't
>     need the extra security plugins for Wordpress specifically.
>     >
>     >
>     > When I checked a few hours ago the ISP Guy site was still
>     infected and was redirecting to another site.
>     >
>     > Regards Chad.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>
>
>     -- 
>     Chad Kelly
>     Manager
>     CPK Web Services
>     web www.cpkws.com.au <http://www.cpkws.com.au>
>     phone 03 9013 4853
>
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Chad Kelly
Manager
CPK Web Services
web www.cpkws.com.au
phone 03 9013 4853

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