to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach

to patch two-month-old bug led to massive Equifax breach

[Richard Stallman]

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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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