Coyote Linux new item defacement

Apearently someone thought that the Coyote Linux web site would be a good place to put up some anti-war material this morning. The top 2 news items were replaced with a message of "stop this war" and a picture of somebody's hand in the form of a "peace" sign. However good intentioned this may have been, it has caused this site to become a little less interactive.

In retrospect, the choice of PHP-Nuke was probably not the best idea for the Coyote Linux site's content management engine. I have paid close attention to the security announcements and have hand wedged the security patches for PHP-Nuke into the mass amount of changes that I have worked into the PHP-Nuke back-end code. However, something obviously slipped by.

For the time being, I have removed the comment capabilities for polls and news items, disabled much of the account preferences module, and will be spending the next week or so auditing the remaining code for any of my sites that use PHP-Nuke. While PHP-Nuke has freed up a considerable chunk of time by easing the administration tasks of getting new content up on my web sites, it has been a real source of worry for me due to security problems. While this has been the first time that I have had any trouble with the site, it is very likely that I may end up redesigning the site from scratch again.