30 May 2019

Why Do Security Journalists Think That 47 WordPress Websites Being Exploited is Newsworthy?

We have a Google News alert set up to inform of us coverage of vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins to help us make sure we can provide customers of our service the best information on vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins. Mostly though this just reminds us of how poor most of the security journalism done is. Take something that came up today, security journalist covering 47 WordPress websites being hacked. No that isn’t a typo, that really is something that they are covering.

Help Net Security was fairly upfront about that, as near the lead of their story they stated this: [Read more]