‘Highly critical’ Drupal security flaw prompts urgent patch

https://www.cyberscoop.com/drupalgeddon2-patch-security-flaw/

Drupal content management system powers major websites of the world. On Wednesday, a critical security patch has been released for it.  It solves the problem of remote code execution vulnerability that allows hackers to use the multiple systems of Drupal to be hacked. This problem was discovered by an employee of Drupal security auditing firm.  The bug is being named as Dupalgeddon2.  The first time it came to know about in 2014. Even an election security center has been affected and attacked due to this vulnerability.

Cyber-attacks are continuously increasing. These attacks need to be thwarted. Through the vulnerability, the attacker can easily reach the page and modify or even delete the data. This is a major security breach released by Drupal. It’s fortunate that no major attack has happened so far through this vulnerability but there is every chance in future to get such thing happen.  The message from developers is to patch everything. There is need to protect crucial data from attackers and hackers. These crimes are increasing day by day so there is need to be cautious from outset. This kind of vulnerabilities needs to be removed.