[Expired link to a blogcity error message - sorry]
That said, I realize that it’s not feasible for most people to host their own, so here is some of my advice for service providers like blog city who would post messages like this:
- That is way too much downtime for a database recovery. Implement a half-way decent backup strategy, which should include a recovery plan. If you can’t efficiently recover your data from your backups, they aren’t worth much are they?
- How about some consistency in date formatting?
- It always bothers me to see what I consider to be a positive term (”hacker”) being used as a negative label, and don’t even get me started on the lame alternate labels that the media has made up to use instead (”crackers”, “script kiddies”, “white hat” vs. “black hat”, etc.) My opinion is that if someone is committing an actual crime, try using the label “criminal”, instead of creating a negative association with a peripherally related group of people. I don’t go around calling murderers who shoot people “gun owners”, I call them “murderers”. In the same manner, don’t lump in the people who happen to posses the “skills” (or probably in this case, the commonly available tools) required to breach your security with the small subset of those people who would do so with malicious or criminal intent.
- That being said, don’t blame “hackers” (or whatever you want to call them) for your poor security standards. Whatever happened to your site was the direct result of either ignorance or negligence on the part of your developers or system administrators, plain and simple.