Month: October 2016

Joomla websites attacked en masse using recently patched exploits

Attackers are aggressively attacking Joomla-based websites by exploiting two critical vulnerabilities patched last week. The flaws allow the creation of accounts with elevated privileges on websites built with the popular Joomla content management system, even if account registration is disabled. They were patched in Joomla 3.6.4, released Tuesday. [ An InfoWorld exclusive: Go inside a

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Buggy components still dog Java apps

Software will have bugs, but the issues are often in third-party libraries and open source frameworks, not in the code the developers actually wrote. No matter how good the actual code, if these components aren’t managed and checked regularly, the final application remains vulnerable. “Continued pressure to build high-quality software with ever-shorter development cycles and

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