The possibility of Wikipedia being taken over by attackers was just foiled by quick action on the part of Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, with the help of Check Point, the security firm that discovered the critical security hole in its code. “It is conceivable that someone who discovered this vulnerability could have executed code that may have made it possible to access user data,” says Wikimedia Foundation spokesman Jay Walsh.
WikiMedia Foundation find and fixes critical vulnerability in Wikipedia
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