If this news recommendation site is being constantly hacked to the point in which it has more malware than a porn site, then the developer should consider making it more secure. Otherwise users would not visit it anymore, unless the owner starts to place some hot picures to serve together with the exploits.
Indie developers need to get better at writing software that is secure by default, but they do not need the whole process-driven juggernaut that Microsoft runs internally with things like SWI.
So, I asked because it sounded strange to me that a two-person news-recommendation startup would be spending serious time on security, as opposed to figuring out ways to make money on their property.
The guys at Wordpress and Jommla beg to disagree.
It depends on how popular it is. If the open source version of Reddit becames as popular as Wordpress, then it certainly would get hacked in that manner.
Most startups aren't indies.
For instance, Plentyoffish.com was a ONE person startup not so long ago with revenues of 1MM and 1B pageviews. Just imagine what a news recomendation site with TWO persons would be able to do. :)