Matt Mullenweg spoke out recently on the recent bogus “SecurityFocus SQL Injection” fear spreading across the web. There is a huge perception today that WordPress is a security risk. This is not true.
As Matt discussed, fears of SQL server vulnerabilities and other security issues have gotten out of control, for WordPress as well as other open source and proprietary programs, which he likened to “running into a crowded theatre and yell ‘fire’ and the less basis there is in fact the more people link to them. It’s not uncommon to see crying-wolf reports like the above several times in a week…”
Jeff Jones, a software security expert, dug into the history of a recent SQL server issue and reported:
Last week a web-based news story comes to my attention which asserted that last year SQL Server had “…most vulnerabilities last year of any commercial database…” That prompted me to do some fact checking and I thought it worth documenting the real (really good) story of SQL vulnerabilities and what commercial database had the most vulnerabilities last year…
So. One thing is clear from the rudimentary investigation I’ve performed here - SQL Server was not even close to having the most vulnerabilities last year of any commercial database.
In fact, though SQL 2000 Server may have had a rough track record up through 2003, the SQL team has certainly turned a corner since then and SQL Server 2005 has had one of the best security track records of any commercial database ever.
In a report on his Security Blog, Internet Explorer and Firefox Vulnerability Analysis (pdf), Jones reported that FireFox has had more security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer, even though it is a widely held belief that FireFox is the “better” browser.
When a security issue came up with WordPress.com, it was fixed within 10 minutes of being reported. Yet, the news spread around for days that WordPress.com was a security risk.
Perception is everything. In another report and analysis, Jeff Jones reports on the increasing number of disclosures influencing the perception of security issues and vulnerabilities as they catch the public eye.
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In honor of celebrating the web designers, I also honor those who are working behind the scenes to break the last major barrier on the web: language. This is the year, folks, that we have to start breaking the language barrier to make the web truly accessible by all. 
Starting Monday, March 31, 2008, Scott began a double version of his 2005 success with 
There is a listing of the basic information provided by your browser like where you are arriving from, the browser you are using, screen size, and so on, but much more. There is a live action map that shows the countries with white dots that flash like a radar signal to show the geographical location from where the visitors are on the map. When we switched to the map, we saw flashing signals from Australia, Alaska, Europe, but the collection of radar rings radiating from Dallas, Texas, was huge, showing all of us on his blog.
