{"id":1660,"date":"2013-06-06T13:27:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2013-06-12T16:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T22:17:02","slug":"impermium-has-web-security-and-spam-issues-of-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/06\/impermium-has-web-security-and-spam-issues-of-their-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Impermium Has Web Security and Spam Issues of Their Own"},"content":{"rendered":"

Impermium promotes itself as “Protecting the Web from Security Threats<\/a>“, that they are “run by leading anti-spam and cybersecurity experts<\/a>“, and that they have “a cutting-edge comment spam filter<\/a>“; but a quick look shows that they can’t even handle web security and spam on their own website.<\/p>\n

Keeping software running on a website up to date is one of the basic website security measures that should be taken<\/a>, so a company run by “cybersecurity experts” is going to be doing that right? Wrong:<\/p>\n

\"Impermium<\/a><\/p>\n

Not only have they failed to update WordPress for over six months, but they failed to update when a security release was put out back in January<\/a>. WordPress makes it very easy to update, so there isn’t any excuse for not doing it. They are not alone in this; a few weeks ago we mentioned that that the web security company\u00a0StopTheHacker also was running the same outdated version of WordPress<\/a>. What does it say that web security companies either don’t know the basics of website security or don’t care about it?<\/p>\n

As for spam, here is the Impermium Knowledge Base<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Impermium<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are an anti-spam company you shouldn’t miss spam entries like “Significant Bad Credit Loans for Debt Consolidation Loan” and “Know how different types of loans could benefit you” in your Knowledge Base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impermium promotes itself as “Protecting the Web from Security Threats“, that they are “run by leading anti-spam and cybersecurity experts“, and that they have “a cutting-edge comment spam filter“; but a quick look shows that they can’t even handle web security and spam on their own website. Keeping software running on a website up to … Continue reading “Impermium Has Web Security and Spam Issues of Their Own”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-security","category-outdated-web-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}