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Why WordPress Updates Matter

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Sean Michael Kerner
Oct 16, 2013

Hacking Websites today isn’t nearly as hard as it once was. The open-source WordPress content management system powers more than 71 million Websites, and all an attacker needs to do to potentially hack any one of them is to find an old, unpatched deployment.
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