Web stores built with Magento software, should be equipped with an extra protection to keep Hackers out. Magento about yesterday evening sent a distress message. The software would contain a leak.
According to Byte hosting company that hosts online stores with Magento, it is the so-called Shop Elevator bug . “By placing a backdoor a hacker can take over the administrative rights of the shop and if at all (customer) data,” says the company. “There was already a solution available, but the problem is now very urgent because this week a Hackers exploit is published. This is a program that lets the software leak can be abused.
Many online shops are not protected
Magento urges its customers to perform two updates of the data secure web store better. Bytes’ members have 60 percent of the updates are not executed, the company reports to Twinkle. “I expect that the percentage of Dutch shops which is still higher in danger, because our customers have been informed well,” said a spokeswoman.
Hackers
This week it was announced that the Mapp.nl shop was recently hacked via a sql injection . This is a vulnerability in the connection being abused between the website and the database. The importance of securing websites and webshops was then also last year clearly showed that two-thirds of the global online stores is vulnerable to hackers due to the Heartbleed bug . Several large companies such as Etsy undertook then action to resolve the error in the system.
Magento online stores can be protected by downloading updates SUPEE-1533 and SUPEE-5344 from this page.
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