IT Professionals Fail at Securing Websites.

Do a quick search on google images for the term “hacked by” and you’ll see over 1.5 million pictures, of which many are beautiful imagery, representing a whole gamut of sites having been hacked by either script kiddiez or more determined individuals.  However, Let’s get the word right.  “cracked by” would be the correct terminology for some of these sites as “hacked by” would indicate that something had been done original or functionality in some way was extended/altered.  Most of these sites are simply cracked to replace a html or php entry with an image.

What do we learn from this:

IT guys with college degrees often know less than 13 year olds in 2nd world countries, failing to protect sites against simple stuff like javascript and sql injection attacks.

If anyone working at a human resources ever reads this: consider hiring the seemingly least qualified person to run your IT department as you might end up with a much cheaper and much more competent employee, or at least one who might have a desire to work instead of playing World of Warcraft and setting up their slingbox all day.