Comments on: Dear Realtor.com: This is How You Communicate With Your Users

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:50:05 +0000

I agree with Trace. Realtors pay a pretty penny for this site not including upgrades. I know colorado springs real estate agents do anyway. Realtor.com has plenty in their budget to make sure this kind of thing does not happen. There should be a department in place watching for this. Monster companies do not always think so clearly I guess.

By: Trace Richardson

Trace Richardson — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:16:06 +0000

I hear you but the vulnerabilities are the same announced or not… and a site like Realtor.com is not a mom and pop blog….this is a preeminent internet property….. there should be a team taking care of these issues…. we’re on week three now with no blog postings……you are right, it is embarrassing…. heads should have rolled weeks ago over the inaction and lack of communication… there is no captain overseeing the ship….it is lost at sea.

By: REBlogGirl

REBlogGirl — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:47:10 +0000

Ouch. That sucks. Guess the RE community has to learn how to secure their blogs. And not just that- stop announcing every time they get hacked. EARTH TO REnet: hackers look for sites that advertise their vulnerabilities. Most people have no idea that blogs can be more vulnerable to hacks than regular websites because you can be dealing with opensource code which allows hackers to see the vulnerabilities, third party plugins that may be badly written and and comment WYSIWYG editors that can open other security holes. This community needs to learn to lock down their systems from the server level right through the to the blog software. It’s embarrassing to see this kind of stuff. Real developers understand security.