WordPress the 90% of hacked sites in 2018

WordPress? About 90 percent of all hacked systems content management system (CMS) according to Sucuri researchers in 2018, were WordPress websites.

In second, third and fourth place were web applications (4,6%), Joomla (4,3%) and Drupal (3,7%), according to report which was published yesterday by .WordPress

Sucuri experts reported that most of the hacks were on of plugins, themes, errors in the settings but also the lack thereof by webmasters, who often forget to update their CMS, themes and plugins.

According to the company, 90% of all hacked sites used WordPress, and most of them were running updates, with only 36% of them using older versions.

"Attackers seem to be showing a lot of interest in e-commerce sites with valuable customer data (ie credit card and user information). It is imperative that the owners of these sites update their software immediately. ”

Do you use WordPress? Remove all unnecessary plugins and use a trusted theme. At iGuRu.gr we use the Genesis Framework, and as few plugins as possible, always up to date.

It is also important to use a reliable one hosting, as well as the security settings you use.

It should be mentioned that the 90% given by Sucuri is not indicative of it s that WordPress CMS provides, as the company is mostly concerned with the security of that particular platform.

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