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to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach
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Richard Stallman |
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to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach |
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Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:52:13 -0400 |
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Failure to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/massive-equifax-breach-caused-by-failure-to-patch-two-month-old-bug/
Thursday's disclosure strongly suggests that Equifax failed to
update its Web applications, despite demonstrable proof the
bug gave real-world attackers an easy way to take control of
sensitive sites. An Equifax representative didn't immediately
respond to an e-mail seeking comment on this possibility. As
Ars warned in March, patching the security hole was labor
intensive and difficult, in part because it involved
downloading an updated version of Struts and then using it to
rebuild all apps that used older, buggy Struts versions. Some
websites may depend on dozens or even hundreds of such apps,
which may be scattered across dozens of servers on multiple
continents.
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