Oh Crap Situation 21: Hacked!
Your site is up and you’re getting steady hits. Finding new ways to allow users to interact with your website is increasing your hits steadily. One feature, in particular, is the chat box. You have a few dedicated members of your site who continuously and actively use your chat box. Unfortunately, hackers have found a way to mess with your code by using the chat function. How will you secure this features and the others on your site? How should you re-evaluate your position on controlling security of all of your features?
On a side note, this kind of stems from a personal experience. I had a website with a message board (PHPBB) which would continuously experience DDOS attacks and ultimately led to my front page being hacked several times. After a day of testing, I figured out I had a version of PHPBB that wasn’t updated. So make sure all of your third-party software is updated properly!
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