IKEA’s TaskRabbit breach means new passwords
Posted By: ITWiser Webmaster - Yorkshire's IT Specialists
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A nasty and dangerous vulnerability which was originally discovered 15 years ago has returned. This is an easy to exploit vulnerability which exposes a website to being hijacked.. The vulnerability, that is present in many libraries and web applications, can be used to search the backend of a website and potentially gain access to confidential information or even take control of the code. It does this by changing the “HTTP_Proxy” variable value on the web server allowing a hijacker to redirect the webserver output.
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