Subj : Poorly managed web sites.. are more problematic.
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jan 12 2020 05:48:11

On 1/10/2020 10:15 AM, between "Kurt Weiske : August Abolins":

 KW> The problem isn't the known risky sites, as they get caught
 KW> in most web filters, like the ones in Chrome and Firefox.
 KW> Poorly managed web sites, like the mom-and-pop bed and
 KW> breakfast, or auto shop that get hijacked are more
 KW> problematic.

 KW> Even my personal blog was infected at one point and was
 KW> sending out malware to people who visited it.

I've had infections on several of the sites that I manage. The results
are often a white page with no results. Just a 2 months ago, one was
successful to redirect visitors directly to a pharma site.

Wordpress is a popular target for these infections.  I get the php
injections that are often found in the functions.php file. It's
relatively easy to clean them out.  Then, it is just a matter of locking
down the directories of files as read-only.

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