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by paintchipluvr 3132 days ago
Same can be said about most things but that doesn't/won't stop people from using things like this. The same goes for web Development I used to be a freelance web designer in 2000s-2009 which gave way to do it yourself 1 click websites, forums, and WordPress which people use blindly. I was recently looking at local businesses web presence and 3 I found were using WordPress to serve up mostly static pages all out of date 1 was hijacked and serving pornography TGP with a link on the main page to it. I contacted the owner who could seem to care more about being bothered than the fact his family friendly restaurant and website were serving up hardcore porn. took them 24 hours to fix something that should have took less than 5 minutes. and they only removed the link their website is still hijacked the script is still on their site and the exploiter could return at anytime and start serving up malware. I documented everything pretty well and am going to use it as a case example to these other local businesses to hopefully use some sense and not try and DIY and hire if not me, someone to maintain their websites. 1 last comical thing is another one of them was using their FTP credentials in css to link a picture