Question

Aim higher college has deployed an open source blog package. this package uses a database backend and allows users to create user ids, sites, and their own content to post it. recently, the service has had off-campus users who have posted links that appear to be directed towards university resources, but they are getting redirected toward off-campus malware sites. what would you recommend that the application administrator should do?

Answer 1

The application administrator should tighten measures on the external application used in the database backend especially when it comes to creating user IDs in order to prevent unauthorized users - any off-campus or even non-affiliated users to indiscriminately post links, especially malware and malicious ones. This can be done by selecting a viable verification method in order to only allow on-campus students to sign-up to the service.