Is ColdFusion Really Becoming Popular Again?

Michael Marr — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:25:59 +0000

I have somewhat of an unwarranted gambling degenerate reputation here at the WebProNews offices. It may or may not have to do with the time I was pushing a double digit debt in lunches from various bets. However, I would not bet on ColdFusion. I even previously wrote about the ColdFusion job market, or lack thereof. Luckily, I didn’t place any bets against ColdFusion, as it looks like use may be on the rise.

Stephen O’Grady over at RedMonk compiled a ranking of programming language popularity based on an interesting set of metrics: StackOverflow questions and GitHub projects. Comparing Stephen’s findings from September 2011 and February 2012 show a significant improvement in ColdFusion’s position.

There are two ways to interpret these scatter plots. On one side, we can assume that ColdFusion’s move up in rankings in both StackOverflow and GitHub indicates an increase in usage. However, we also see that the February 2012 graph includes additional languages on the plot. Whereas the original September plot included 53 languages, the more recent February graph includes somewhere around 70 languages. Although numerically higher in rank, ColdFusion appears in a relative position with regards to the other programming languages. It seems that ColdFusion may have simply benefited from the inclusion of less popular programming languages.

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ColdFusion Based Sites Are Target For Latest SQL Attack

John Vinson — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:23:45 +0000

In the beginning of December, it was discovered that a SQL attack was making its rounds across the internet. It was redirecting visitors from their site to a malicious one, titled – “Lilupophilupop”. The attack was named after the URL with the same name.

It is being reported that over a million websites were infected and this has alarmed many security experts. The malicious link has been seen in both ASP and ColdFusion sites with a MSSQL backend.

The injected script is rather simple, as it adds a script tag to a site which direct browsers to JavaScript loaded on the malicious site. The infection has been appearing in a wide variety of countries, in North America, Europe, and Asia.

According to a security expert, Mark Hofman, this injection might be the work of many people or someone who was prepping it over a long period of time, “The manual component and the number of sites infected suggests a reasonable size work force or a long preparation period”

If you want to check and make sure your site hasn’t been infected, just do this search in your source code: “

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