August 1st, 2008
Drupal, Joomla! and wordpress make it onto IBMs top 10 security vulnerability list.
The full report is linked.
IBM Internet Security Systems has published their Mid-Year Trend Statistics report which among other things, highlights trends in malware and phishing, and ranks vendors, open source projects, and even languages by security breach disclosures.
The fact that Drupal, along with Joomla and wordpress have made it onto their list is testament to how far open source projects like those three have gone in the last few years. Like most sensible people, I'm on the Drupal security announcement mailing list, so, if any vulnerabilities are identified we all know about them very quick.
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On one hand of course the security issues in the Drupal world [or WP and Joomla] are naturally becoming much more of an issue as the exposure increases with more and larger projects using these solutions. On the other hand - as you sad - Drupal has a dedicated security desk, which is in my eyes a step in the right direction and I think the approach to security will become more efficient and more sophisticated over time. It?s simply hard to coordinate the development of a great frame work and at the same time keep the security issues on radar with the sometimes very limited resources available in an open source development process.
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 am
On one hand of course the security issues in the Drupal world [or WP and Joomla] are naturally becoming much more of an issue as the exposure increases with more and larger projects using these solutions. On the other hand - as you sad - Drupal has a dedicated security desk, which is in my eyes a step in the right direction and I think the approach to security will become more efficient and more sophisticated over time. It?s simply hard to coordinate the development of a great frame work and at the same time keep the security issues on radar with the sometimes very limited resources available in an open source development process.
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 am
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