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Drupal Hardens Its Security in Response to Criticism

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jan 12, 2016

The open-source Drupal content-management system (CMS) is talking steps to help protect against multiple potential risks that have been publicly revealed. On Jan. 6, security research vendor IOactive first disclosed the issues, which are focused on the Drupal update process. The Drupal project’s security team is aware of the concerns and is fixing all the issues, though it is also downplaying the overall risk.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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