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Half-baked Patching: More Common Than You Think

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Larry Cashdollar

In the last year or so I’ve been looking at Wordpress plugins. I’ve seen some poorly written code, plugins that had little purpose (one plugin’s stated purpose was to only download a copy of itself!) and patches that attempted to… Continue reading Half-baked Patching: More Common Than You Think→

Akamai and the DROWN Vulnerability (Updated)

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Akamai

3/8/16 UPDATE: Akamai continues to harden systems against the DROWN vulnerability (CVE-2016-0800), which exploits legacy encryption protocols in order to compromise keys that secure modern protocols, like TLSv1.2. (It does not leak the SSL/TLS keys themselves.) We have taken the… Continue reading Akamai and the DROWN Vulnerability (Updated)→