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Experts Urge Rapid Patching of ‘Struts’ Bug

August 23, 2018 admin Apache Software Foundation, Apache Struts vulnerability, Equifax breach, Latest Warnings, Man Yue Mo, Pavel Avgustinov, Semmle, The Coming Storm, Time to Patch

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:22:35 +0000

In September 2017, Equifax disclosed that a failure to patch one of its Internet servers against a pervasive software flaw — in a Web component known as Apache Struts — led to a breach that exposed personal data on 147 million Americans. Now security experts are warning that blueprints showing malicious hackers how to exploit a newly-discovered Apache Struts bug are available online, leaving countless organizations in a rush to apply new updates and plug the security hole before attackers can use it to wriggle inside.