AT school I figured out that if a question asks:
Show that blah blah = bluh bluh, the answer is Shown. In like manner I think the major reason why more and more Zimbabwean web sites get hacked is because they are so easy to hack! So maybe the right question to ask is "Why are many Zimbabwean websites so easy to hack?"

One most concrete reason is the platforms or technologies which are used to build these websites. If you look closely at these commonly hacked web sites, they mostly were developed using open source technologies, such as Wordpress, Joomla and other open source blogging platforms. Whilst open source has the advantages of being “FREE” and having a large support base due to the multiplicity of users using them, Open Source is also prone to Open vulnerabilities and Open hacking.
Okay, maybe one does not understand what open source means.
It simply means the source code of an application or platform is available to anyone,
to see, analyse, find weaknesses and device means to attack it if they so
desire.
Take Wordpress for example; because so many people use it
because it’s a free platform and considered to be user friendly, so many people
discover vulnerabilities and amongst these people are hackers. It’s like
developing your website on a platform whose architecture is known by so many
people, such an architecture is highly prone to attacks by the so called
hackers. Another limitation with open
source platforms is that one can only secure their website as far as the
platform tools and widgets permit. Open source web development using blogging
tools is more of web assembling than web development. Open Source guys don’t gnash your teeth on me!
Only telling the truth! I know you told
your boss it works like magic! I pray
your boss will not read this! These IT guys! LOL!
So what’s the way out? Whilst open source platforms like
word press are cheaper and quicker ways of building and maintaining a web site,
they are highly prone to attacks. If one
finds a vulnerability of the wordpress platform, they can randomly
attack any wordpress site and bring it down! An alternative is to find
hard core developers php, etc. Programmers
can devise ways of implementing higher and better security options for your web
site to minimise attacks since they have more control over the development
process than when using open source platforms like wordpress to assemble a web
site.
And I presume, as long as Zimbabwean companies continue to run
their websites using these open source facilities, we will frequently hear of hacking
cases. If your site is prone to a random attack; what more of a targeted
attack! If the availability of your web site is not critical to your
organisation, then you can afford those outages and being reported as hacked
everywhere, but it can never be the case with say a news website.

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